Peru's Paolo Guerrero (L) celebrates with teammate Claudio Pizarro after scoring against Bolivia in their Copa America 2015 quarter-finals soccer match at Estadio Municipal Bicentenario German Becker in Temuco, Chile, June 25, 2015. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Paolo Guerrero, Peru’s hat-trick scorer in their quarter-final win over Bolivia on Thursday, was only three years old when his uncle, a Copa America winner in 1975, died in one of Peruvian soccer's worst tragedies.
Guerrero’s uncle was Jose Gonzales, Peru’s reserve goalkeeper when they won the Copa America 40 years ago. It was a vintage Peruvian team led by arguably their greatest ever player, striker Teofilo Cubillas.
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