Manolo ‘El del Bombo’, one of the most popular fans of the World Cups, died at 76 years of age
Manuel Cáceres, el Famous fan of the selection of Spain during the last five decades, better known as Manolo ‘El del Bombo’, He died This Thursday at 76 years of age.
Manolo It began to be done popular during the World Cup held in Spain in 1982accompanied by his inseparable Bomboand attended ten World Cup appointments to encourage Spain, missing only Qatar.
Manolo, a resident in recent years in the Castellonense town of Moncófar, attended the last commitment of Spain in Mestalla, in the quarterfinals of the Nations League before the Netherlands, which was resolved in the penalty shootout on March 24.
Born in Ciudad Real, he moved soon to Huesca, where his passion for football was born and became usual in the Licoraz stands to encourage the local team and later also to Zaragoza.
Although he already attended the 1980 Eurocup, his leap to popularity took place after the 1982 World Cup in Spain, where more than 15 thousand kilometers were traveled in adventures and his image dressed in his great chapela, the cachirulo around his neck, the shirt of the National Team with 12 behind his back and his inseparable hype began to be popular for football fans of that time.
However, his passion for the selection at the World Cup event ruined him and, after a couple of difficult years, was definitively installed in Valencia, where he opened a bar in front of the Mestalla stadium, which he ran for more than three decades and was one of the indispensable football centers in the city.
Despite the economic fluctuations during all those years, Manolo, who was already retired, never stopped encouraging the Spanish team, the great passion of his life, in all the great tournaments.
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