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The Rabbit Pérez told that Jorge Campos prevented him from playing an Olympic Games

The soccer player wants most is to play a world Cupalthough also Olympic Games they are the mecca of sports in general because they bring together years of history. Oscar Perez he had the fortune to compete in the first of them, but he missed the Olympics due to “fault” of Jorge Campos.

The Rabbit was a fixture for the U23 Selection who was going to dispute the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Although he was going to go as second or third goalkeeper, the illusion of sharing the Olympic Village with great athletes and representing his country when he was so young, was a situation that had him very excited.

However, shortly before those games begin the FIFA reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee to include three players over the age of 23, who would serve as guides for the youngest. This situation caused Pérez to be replaced by Brody.




“Something pending that I could not achieve was an Olympic Games, it is the only thing I lacked. In Atlanta I was going to go and Campos arrived. The rule came that they should be three older and one of them was Jorge, there were two goalkeepers, not the three It was Jorge and Oswaldo Sánchez, it was sad because it was about a week away and supposedly it was over, Oswaldo and I were going “, he indicated in an interview in ESPN.

Similarly, the goalkeeper had an enviable career and, beyond that, he would have liked to play a season in the Machine again: “Being demanding to be able to play again with Cruz Azul an official tournament, but no, I am happy with what I lived. I enjoyed everything I have lived, I have no reproach whatsoever”he sentenced.

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