martes, 10 de mayo de 2011

Spain prepares for Seve Ballesteros funeral



Ballesteros won five majors in a glittering career.
The funeral of golfing legend Seve Ballesteros will take place on Wednesday in his home village of Pedrena in Spain.
The ceremony will be at the San Pedro parish church at 1200 BST.
Ballesteros died aged 54 in the early hours of Saturday morning after a long battle with cancer.
"Seve will be cremated at a ceremony that will be as intimate as possible and at a place that nobody will know," said the Ballesteros family.
"That was his express wish. His ashes will remain at his estate, at his home in Pedrena."
Seve's brother Baldomero Ballesteros was quoted as saying: "The funeral rites will be as simple as those for any neighbour from the village. He was born here and here he will remain."
Miguel Angel Revilla, head of the local Cantabria government, said the region will observe three days of official mourning.
At the Players Championship in Florida this week, the Spanish flag will fly in honour of Ballesteros until Sunday.
Normally, the previous year's winner has his national flag flying over the Circle of Champions but the South African flag marking Tim Clark's victory last May has been replaced.
Ballesteros, one of the most gifted players the sport has ever seen, won three Opens and two Masters in a career that had 87 tournament victories.
He played in eight Ryder Cups, winning 22½ points from 37 matches, as well as captaining the European side to victory in 1997.
His passing has been marked across the world of sport, with silences being held at the European Tour's Spanish Open and at the Wells Fargo Championship in America over the weekend.
South African Thomas Aiken dedicated his Spanish Open victory on Sunday to Ballesteros. He said: "He was everything to the game of golf and I am happy to have won for him - any of us would have won for him."
There was also a tribute before the Madrid Open tennis semi-final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on Saturday, while the Barcelona and Espanyol football teams paid their respects to Ballesteros before their La Liga match on Sunday.

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