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Famous Athletes from the Spanish-Speaking World
El béisbol
In addition to Sammy Sosa and Alfonso Soriano, another famous baseball player from the Caribbean was Roberto Clemente.
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) was from Puerto Rico. He played baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 through 1972. During the off seasons, Clemente donated his time to help people in Puerto Rico and Latin America, delivering baseball equipment and food to the needy. He died in a plane crash in 1972 on his way to aid earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Clemente was inducted posthumously to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973.
El tenis
Rafael Nadal (b. 1986) is a professional tennis player from España who is consistently ranked in the top ten male players in the world. Nadal has won 14 Grand Slam singles titles, and he won the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles. Nadal holds the record for most consecutive titles. He won the Monte-Carlo Masters eight times in a row.
El básquetbol
Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin (b. 1973) played basketball in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6' 4", played the center position most of her career. Lobo played college basketball at the University of Connecticut, where her team won the 1995 national championship.
El golf
Lorena Ochoa Reyes (b. 1981) is a professional golfer from México who played in the LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010. She was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for more than three years until she retired in 2010, at the age of 28. She wanted to have more time to pursue her other passion, which was promoting the education of needy children in México. She built and funded a school in her native Guadalajara, México, called La Barranca. Her second school, called Lorena Ochoa School, is to contain sports facilities, gardens, and social workers.
El fútbol
Javier Hernández Balcázar (b. 1988) is better known as El Chicharito (little pea). He is a Méxican soccer player who plays forward for the premier club Manchester United as well as for the Selección de fútbol de México (the Méxican national soccer team). El Chicharito is the first Méxican soccer player to join Manchester United. Like Lorena Ochoa, El Chicharito was born in Guadalajara, the second largest city in México.