The 91-year-old Argentine journalist covering his 18th World Cup

An Argentine journalist is covering his eighteenth World Cup, per BBC Sport—a tournament he has attended continuously since nineteen fifty-eight, when seventeen-year-old Pelé debuted. Enrique Macaya Marquez is now ninety-one, spanning nearly seven decades of the sport's defining competition.

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