Ovidio Messa Soruco (12 December 1952 – 27 July 2017) was a Bolivian footballer. He was born in Yacuíba, Bolivia. He was known for playing for the Bolivia national football team from 1978 through 1979.
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In 1980, Messa is tapped by Club Libertad of Paraguay, later to be transferred to the Club Guaraní of that same country. In 1983, Messa returned to Bolivia and after a brief passage by the Club Bolivar to The Strongest. In 1986 a serious knee injury forced him to retire for a few months from the courts, but in October of that year he decided to retire definitively from the active practice of professional football.[1]
Messa died on 27 July 2017 of pancreatic cancer in Alicante, Spain at the age of 64.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Murió Ovidio Messa, ícono del fútbol nacional". Archived from the original on 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2017-07-31.
- ^ Fallece Ovidio Messa, un ícono del fútbol boliviano - Diario Pagina Siete
External links
edit- Obituary: Ovidio Messa Archived 2017-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Ovidio Messa at National-Football-Teams.com