Miami, United States.
Another World Cup player has left us. The former Honduran football player Celso Fredy Güity Núñez, 65, died Thursday in Miami, United States, from bone cancer that affected him for a while until it led to his death.
Güity, who played a winger, was part of the Honduras National Team at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, although he did not play any games. He was in the process for that historical classification and took part in the draw and the hexagonal commanded by Chelato Uclés.
Celsinho, as they called him, went through a period of glory in football, but it didn’t last very long. He played in two teams in the National League, in the Marathon, with which he became champion in 1985, and in Sula de La Lima. He was also an army legionary in the municipality of Guatemala.
He decided to leave football to help his family because his salary as a football player at the time was very low and not enough and for many there was no punctuality in paying, he said in a 2010 interview.
The need to get ahead led him to seek a better future and to emigrate to the United States, where his life took a complete turn. Whoever was born in Corozal went from a World Cup to a constructor. With a lot of effort and work he managed to settle on North American soil.
Güity joins the regrettable list of late former Honduran football glory. With him there are six former globalists who are no longer in this world after the deaths of Domingo Droumond Cooper, Francisco Javier Toledo, Roberto ‘Robot’ Bailey, Roberto ‘Macho’ Figueroa and Luis Cruz, who was a victim of the coronavirus.