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Guillermo Ochoa revealed in an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport that from Greece his signing with Olympiakos was stopped due to a photo that circulated in Mexico on April Fool’s Day in 2011 and where they jokingly claimed that he had six fingers. In addition to the aforementioned Greek team, it was rumored that English Fulham also wanted to get the services of Paco Memo.
This is how the Greek media reported that the star Mexican goalkeeper suffered from Polydactyly, a genetic disorder that causes human beings to be born with more fingers or toes and in this case they even showed a false photograph of the Aztec goalkeeper. This fact unfortunately led to the halting of the negotiations.
“It was a rumor that spread in Greece, at a time when it seemed that he was going to reach Olympiakos. December 28 is April Fools’ Day in Mexico. The newspapers have fun making up news and one of them referred to me and my supposed six fingers on one hand. In my country they laughed at that, in Greece someone liked that and that’s how the legend was bornsaid Guillermo Ochoa in an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport.
Guillermo Ochoa currently wears the colors of Salernitana at 37 years oldhaving yet another experience in European football and is also known by all his desire to reach fullness and be able to be taken into account for 2026 and play his sixth World Cup.
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