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A phrase in the memory of this newspaper resonates from time to time: “You slept, we dreamed”. Martín Tello described in this way in ACE the first victory in the history of Spain over the United States in basketball. It was 1982, the World Cup was being played in Cali (Colombia) and the success of such a feat was told in such evocative words. This sport began to break and Tello, among other great classics of the written press, gave a necessary visibility. One of the most recognizable voices and faces on television (which did not broadcast that mythical date because it happened at dawn) was Héctor Quiroga. His disappearance after two years of that and days after the memorable silver medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, a generation also awarded in this round of the Spanish Basketball Hall of Fame, scraped with deep regret the skin of a hobby that was beginning to be legion in this country.
The ball of basketball in Spain is not understood without Quiroga. He is the spitting image of the orange ball in TVE as they were at other times Ramón Trecet and Pedro Barthe, also recognized by the FEB for their work as contributors, Calvo, Gómez, Salaner or Cañada. The public corporation was the only one in issue during the 60s, 70s and most of the 80s and Héctor was the head expert. His work with basketball had led him to the position of deputy head of sports broadcasting, a position he held when he died. He was part of the staff of Televisión Española, in which a vast knowledge of various sports opened the doors to the most relevant broadcasts and it was with basketball that the total click was produced.
The Galician that Argentines playfully use to refer to Spaniards was also him. In your case, the other way around. His mother and his grandmother were actresses from Argentina who toured Europe. Nélida met Pepe, also immersed in the entertainment world. Héctor was a graceful son of A Coruña from South America who came into the world in 1933 and fulfilled “every sports journalist’s dream”, as he himself emphasized: the LA Games were the last, before he had participated in four more (Mexico, Munich, Montreal, Moscow). In 1984, after the “greatest success of Spanish basketball in all its times”, felt unwell in New York, the place where he wanted to spend the holidays with his family, and later died there. Quiroga suffered from cancer that was turning off his lucid voice and ended up taking him away.
In programs like sports Center either On the terrain The oldest of the place will have seen him. But his fingerprint it goes further. In addition to his complete recordhis son Jorge continues Héctor’s legacy as a basketball specialist in the pages of BRAND.
Many basketball fans will recognize his name because he titled a tournament. The Association Tournament, which gave color to the preseason, changed its name in its second edition to honor him: Hector Quiroga Memorial it was from there until its end in 1992. Real Madrid received teams of the caliber of Caserta, Virtus or Pau-Orthez in the city, even if it was at Magariños del Estudiantes. And another tournament that he gave voice to and that hooked many will also appear on the mental reel, the Real Madrid Christmas Tournamentwhich once again closes another circle in this litter of the FEB Hall of Fame: devised by Raimundo Saporta, from 1967 to 2004 he delighted the eyes of lovers of this sport with Quiroga’s didactic narration accompanying the experience in a short competition in the one where the best of basketball passed through Spain.
Without Héctor Quiroga, the history of Spanish basketball would not be understood, his first successes and the boom of a generation bore his mark, and for this reason the Spanish Federation grants him this new recognition for the protagonist of an unparalleled career.
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