Jerry Bengtson is a name well known already within the turn of the football of Concacaf. His passage through the Selection of Honduras and, in Mexico, for having been part of the Aztecazo, you know about him.
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However, in the last few hours on Mexican soil, his name has become quite popular due to a peculiarity in it; your mouthpiece when playing a game.
Neither his goals and assists, worse his past for the national team echo Bengtson in Mexico, whose country is the next rival of the Olympia in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions; Tigers.
The Mexican press emphasizes the decision of Jerry Bengtson of playing their matches with mouthpieces, and so I saw it recognized portals like Goal y Half time. “Protocol is not broken on the court with an official match in between, or so Jerry Bengston did in the Olimpia vs. Montreal Impact“, wrote the Mexican medium MT.
And to tell the truth, the issue of the 33-year-old Honduran player is unique in the world of football, we still do not know another footballer who plays with a mask after returning to the courts for the pandemic of Covid19.
“Health protocols against the coronavirus they have to follow to the letter and there is a footballer who plays with mouthguards on the return of the Concachampions for that one of the bad doubts, although it was curious because all in the field were put under multiple tests that threw negatives. The captain of the Olympia and selected from Honduras, Jerry Bengston, was the soccer player who chose to wear the mask in the confrontation with Montreal Impact within the End Charts of the CONCACAF Champions League, which resumed on Tuesday in the bubble of Orlando “, said an excerpt from the article.