Former Columbia reporter relates his friendship with Escobar: I knew he was lonely in prison. I couldn't leave him.

René Higuita was one of those football players who wrote his name in football history for good and bad.

His famous “Scorpion” at Wembley Stadium is recognised by all fans, as well as its exits from the gate to drive opponents.

Such an adventure led to Colombia being eliminated from the 1990 World.

In an interview for “BO CAS”, ex-porter has discovered some details of his friendship with notorious Pablo Escobar:

I would visit Escobar in jail today, tomorrow and always. I wasn't his best friend, but the little friendship I had with him made everybody else want to become my”.

Pablo Escobar was famous, entered Congress, and then, when he left Congress, he went to jail.

When he was no longer a politician, he was just a narcophicist and no one wanted anything to do with him.

At that moment I thought a friend couldn't handle it like that.

I knew he was lonely in prison. I couldn't give up”, Higuita added, who himself spent nine months in prison in 1993 because she was accused of being an mediator in the release of Escobar's daughter, who was thought to have been kidnapped by Escobar himself.

I was told to hand over Escobar and let me go. Otherwise, I'd do seven years.

I just told him that I don't know anything, but even if I did, I wouldn't say <x0...