Different baseball and soccer teams, as well as figures from the Mexican political sphere, paid tribute to Fernando Valenzuela, who died this Tuesday night in Los Angeles and it was precisely the team where he achieved his greatest successes, the Dodgers, who announced his death through social networks.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, in her traditional morning conference paid tribute to the missing baseball player: “It is a shame, I believe that all Mexicans are sad about the loss of Valenzuela,” said the Mexican president.
While the former Mexican soccer player Hugo Sánchez, visibly moved by the news, pointed out that: “He is a person who served as a sporting symbol for us.”
For its part, the Mexican Baseball League regrets the physical disappearance of Valenzuela: “May the greatest legend of Mexican baseball rest in peace, we join in the grief that overwhelms the Valenzuela Burgos family, for the unfortunate loss of a great, Fernando.” “Valenzuela” Bull
The main Mexican soccer clubs also paid heartfelt tributes to Valenzuela on their social networks, who transcended being a baseball player and became a legendary sports figure, being very loved by the fans.
Valenzuela is the only pitcher who has managed to win the Cy Young Award and the Rookie of the Year Award in the same season and that same year, in addition to winning the World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers in that same year of 1981, he also pitched a no-hitter, no-run game in 1990 against the St. Louis Cardinals.
