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Cuban Erick Hernandez on Thursday said he had set a world record for juggling the Jabulani World Cup ball, while sitting down.
Hernandez told reporters he had juggled the Jabulani -- which some World Cup stars criticised for its lightness and unpredictable trajectories -- for three hours, three minutes and 14 seconds at a Havana hotel.
"I came in a bit tired as I have been doing exhibitions during the World Cup," said the 43-year-old, nicknamed 'The Dominator'.
Hernandez, a self-confessed Brazil fan, described the ball as "having a good bounce" and "very lively".
He already holds a Guinness World record for heading the ball 319 times in just one minute and he even kicked a ball to the finish line in a marathon, completing the 42 kilometres in 7hr 17min.
The ball skills run in the family as brother Douglas managed an impressive -- and surely exhausting -- 100,026 touches in a 15-hour session in 1997.
Now Erick says he wants to try a 24-hour session.
(Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Web site.)
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(Agencies)
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古巴人埃里克?赫爾南德茲于上周四稱，日前他創下了一項坐顛世界杯用球“普天同慶”的世界記錄。
赫爾南德茲告訴記者說，他在哈瓦那的一家旅館連續顛球3小時3分鐘14秒。世界杯的一些參賽球員抱怨本屆世界杯用球“普天同慶”太輕，飛行軌跡難以捉摸。
人稱“主宰者”的43歲的赫爾南德茲說：“我在世界杯期間一直做表演，感覺有點累。”
自稱巴西隊球迷的赫爾南德茲稱“普天同慶”“彈性很好”，“很輕盈”。
他曾在一分鐘內用頭顛球319次，創下吉尼斯世界紀錄。他甚至在一次馬拉松比賽中踢著球跑完42公里的賽程，用時7小時17分。
赫爾南德茲的家族中不乏玩球高手，1997年，他的兄弟道格拉斯在15個小時內連續顛球100026次，令人驚嘆，當然也非常累人。
而埃里克則表示，他想向24小時發起挑戰。
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