This Wednesday, Paco Villa, a Mexican soccer narrator who with his objective and passionate work won over fans game by game, passed away. TUDN He spread the news through a statement and immediately, colleagues from the sports media expressed their regret, including David Faitelson, Alberto Lati, José Ramón Fernández, Luis García, and Christian Martinoli.
Cruz Azul, a team of which he was a fan, remembered him with a video narrating the last championship, the ninth title that ended a 23-year drought: “Thank you for making us vibrate with your stories. Hugs to heaven, dear Paco.”
What did Paco Villa die from?
The television station did not communicate the medical causes that aggravated the state of health of the 54-year-old narrator in recent days, when several personalities in the field began to ask for his improvement. However, Paco Villa had already given information about the illness he suffered from.
Villa was one of the narrators sent to Qatar to cover the 2022 World Cup, where he was diagnosed with cancer, as he commented in a video he shared on Instagram in April of last year: “I tell you that I am undergoing treatment for an aggressive and advanced cancer.” that they detected me during the World Cup in Qatar. “They detected it in a hospital in Doha, specifically during the first days.”
In recent days, colleagues from the media reported that Paco Villa suffered a health relapse due to the cancer he suffered. (Photo: Instagram @paco_villa_)
At that time, Paco said that he was in the tenth round of chemotherapy, the treatment that, according to American Cancer Societyis systemic because it passes through the entire body to “eliminate cancer cells that have spread to parts of the body far from the original tumor.”
During part of his process against cancer, Paco Villa continued narrating on TUDN because, as he said, that made him happy. “I am healing with a lot of faith and fighting with all my being,” he wrote. Thousands of followers, regardless of the team, sent him their best wishes for his recovery.
Who was Paco Villa?
Paco Villa began his professional career as a sports broadcast commentator in Televisa Radio at the end of the nineties.
In conversation with the commentator’s YouTube channel Javier Alarcón, The narrator shared that it took him three years to jump from commentator on the field to narrator on the balcony: “I always wanted to narrate, it took me three years on radio on the field to to be able to narrate on the radio in a box”.
Villa stood out in the sports communication industry for his two-decade career in which he managed to comment on soccer matches, the Olympic Games and various matches in the MX League, World Cups, Premier League, Spanish LaLiga, the Champions League, among others.
In addition to being a commentator, from 2008 to 2014, Villa was editorial director in Digital Televisa and received the same position in 2016 in TDN. Before he died, Paco Villa worked for TUDN with whom he narrated different matches of his favorite Mexican team, Cruz Azul.
