Guadalajara (Mexico City), June 21 -- Roberto Guerrero still sounds surprised when he recalls the phone call that changed his life.
He had spent 15 years calling soccer matches on radio, from modest local fields to first-division games, when he was told he would travel to the 1966 World Cup in England.
"I almost fainted," he said with a laugh in an interview with Xinhua. For a young Mexican commentator at the time, covering a World Cup seemed like an impossible dream.
Six decades after that first tournament, the dream has become a career few can match. At 90, Guerrero is experiencing the 2026 World Cup as the only Mexican journalist to have commented on 15 editions of the tournament, a record that places him among Latin America's longest...