Interview with Ricardo Lopez Juarez from The Los Angeles Publication-La Opinion

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The incredible Ricardo Lopez Juarez, Sports Writer for La Opinion of Los Angeles gave us the chance to share our mission statement with all his readers. Dated September 16th 2016

Below is translated in to English, but you can read the actual interview in Spanish here.

In his life he has achieved all his dreams, but he lacks a very important one to fulfill. At seven years of age, he was already singing alongside Dámaso Pérez Prado and traveling throughout the American continent performing at the theaters of vogue. The presidents of the nations he visited opened the doors of his official residences to expose the splendor of his virtuosity and talent when playing the guitar. 

As a child prodigy of music, he became a young artist who worked in Mexico along with legends of cinema such as Pedro Infante and Germán Valdés “Tin Tan”. “I’ve always been a dreamer,” said Pepe Crow, a resident of the city of Los Angeles who was born in Ecuador 76 years ago. The Rams leave the Seahawks at three points and win historic game in the return of the NFL to Los Angeles Sport was also an important part of the life of this man, who had to abandon his pretensions to become a professional soccer player when in a game he received a kick that broke the tear in his right eye.

“That’s where my football career ended, but not my love of sports,” he said. Visionary man When he came to live in Los Angeles in 1966, Crow began to cultivate the idea of ​​creating a pedestrian passage to display stars with the names of the most important athletes of our time. “I’ve always wanted to do something like what’s in Hollywood where the star walk of the artists is,” he explained. “Los Angeles is a city where sport is a very important part of its history, and what better place to be here where the first Sports Star Tour comes up,” he said. The project of Crow was very close to materialize in 1994 when the members of the city council and the mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan, considered his idea to be part of what was to be the remodeling of Exposition Park. “The Sports Stars Walk was going to be right in the middle of the Memorial Coliseum and the Sports Arena, everything was approved,” Crow recalled with nostalgia.

A party is lived before the Rams’ first game at the Los Angeles Coliseum When it seemed that Crow’s desire would crystallize, a stroke of nature and two samples of human greed came to end everything. The Northridge earthquake and the escape of the NFL, Raiders and Rams teams at the same time caused the city council to cancel the revitalization plan at Exposition Park. “The Raiders played in the Colosseum, the city had already spent millions of dollars fixing the stadium for the Raiders to sign a 10-year lease, but the owner of the team, Al Davis, did not care and ended up going back to Oakland, “explained Crow. At that time, the Ecuadorian had a very close friendship with the owner of the Rams, Carroll Rosenbloom, but five years after his death, his wife, Georgia Frontiere, decided to take the team to San Luis. “The departure of the Rams was the blow that ended up bringing down my plans,” Crow said. Despite the obstacles, Crow never faltered in his idea to create a passage in honor of the great universal athletes. It was so that Crow began to send letters to diverse leaders of the world sport in search of his support to build the Stroll of the Stars of the Sport “I sent three thousand letters and I received a response from 300 of the people I wrote to, it was not bad,” Crow said while showing two large notebooks where he keeps the accumulated answers.

The NFL returns to Los Angeles: the Rams will return to Southern California with home in Inglewood In these folders are missives signed by Pele, Joao Havelange, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Joseph Blatter, among many others, who commented on the Ecuadorian effort to build a commemorative passage dedicated to sports. Crow never stopped thinking about his project, and when the Rams announced in January of this year that they were returning to Los Angeles after 22 years of absence, the illusion of a truncated dream returned to their hearts. Now, Crow seeks the support of the owner of the Rams, Stan Kroenke, to install the Stroll of the Stars of the Sport to the outskirts of the stage of the equipment that in three years will be inaugurated in the city of Inglewood. “What better place to have something that does not exist in any country in the world. Los Angeles is the city of the stars and deserves to have a Walk of Sports Stars, “said Crow, who is confident one day to see his project come true. “Time goes by and you do not get younger, but I’ll never stop dreaming,” he said.

Read the actual interview in Spanish here.