During his long professional career, he narrated more than 3,000 football matches and served as special envoy for six football world championships, six European championships and two editions of the Olympic Games.
Sports journalist Chema Abad died on Friday aged 65 after failing to overcome the stroke he suffered and for which he had been hospitalized in Madrid since September, RTVE reports.
The communicator developed his career at RNE, a channel with which he was associated for 43 years until September 2001, when he stopped presenting ‘Radiogaceta de los deportes’, the oldest sports program on Spanish radio. Publicly, he was also director and presenter of ‘Tablero deportivo’, from 2008 to 2013.
During his long professional career, he has narrated more than 3,000 football matches and served as special envoy for six football World Cups, six Euro Cups and two editions of the Olympic Games, RTVE reports.
Abad graduated in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid and started his career at Antena 3, although he later moved to Radiocadena Española where he was Head of Sports, a position he repeated on Radio 5 and twice on Radio Nacional.
Source: La Verdad
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