The Atlantic José Kaoru Doku, champion with Santa Fe in 1948, dies

A Colombian football legend left. Jose Kaoru Doku Bermejochampion with Santa Fe independent in the first professional national football tournament in 1948, he died this Tuesday in Barranquilla at the age of 98.

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The resident of Usiacuri, Atlantic Ocean, who started playing in the Barrio Abajo, was transferred from the Nariño club, from the local football team, to the cardinal team and there he became one of the protagonists of the legendary first champion. The final was played against the team of his division, Junior from Barranquilla, the first runner-up.

José Kaoru Doku (whom people got used to calling as Kaor Dokuwithout the “u” in his full middle name and with an accent on the last syllable of his last name), he was a member of the National Army and took part in the Korean War in 1952, but this did not stop him from continuing. going to link to football.

‘Kaor Dokú’ also played along millionaires. He worked as a “left and right midfielder”, he said in an interview published by EL HERALDO in July 2017.




Source: El heraldo

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