grammaticality - Reported speech - statements whose meaning still stands


I know the main idea behing the reported speech (shifting of tenses) but one of the textbooks I have says:



I like pizza.


He said he liked pizza.



But I think that if he likes pizza, he likes in in general and he still like it when we report that statement of his/hers. So I think it should be:



He said he likes pizza



in case he is still alive and has not changed his mind. Is that correct?




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