National Soccer
Byron Romeo Pérez was one of the great referents of the Guatemala selection in the 1980s and part of 1990, when football lovers enjoyed a prodigious left -handed.
The former player militated with the Guatemala team for more than 20 years and one of his best moments lived with the Sub-23, who won the bronze medal at the Caracas Pan American Games 1983.
Byron Pérez had the opportunity to play three World Cup qualifiers: Mexico 1986, Italy 1990 and the United States 1994.
“Dressing the shirt of the Guatemala team was the most beautiful thing I could live as a footballer; I always left everything for me país, ”he said when he made a brief tour of his moments with the blue and white.
The best performance was directed to Mexico 1986, when the bicolor was directed by coach Yugoslav Dragoslav Sekularac. The national team fell against Canada for access to the final hexagonal.
The national team towards Italy 1990 It was directed by Rubén Amorín and Jorge El Grillo Roldán, who finished the process, while the tie United States 1994 was led by Argentine Miguel Ángel Brindisi.
Pérez also enjoyed the experience of participating in the Seoul Olympic Games, Korea, in 1988, where he faced Italy, Iraq and Zambia.
The party against Italy is special memory for the former player: despite the defeat, the national team managed to score two goals (5-2), for which Pérez was the one who put the assists for the goals of Carlos Castañeda and Adam Paniagua.
In the National League, the former 1.64 meters tall was a communications figure, team with which he won seven national league titles. In the 1988-1989 season he began playing with Municipal, but the tournament did not finish because he joined the black lions from the University of Guadalajara.
Byron Pérez was born in Guatemala City and grew playing football andn El Martinico neighborhood, zone 6.