26 years from the murder of Escobar, his “crime”

South America has donated some soccer icons to the world, but it has also suffered some terrible tragedies.

One of them is the murder of Andres Escobar, the football player, “the single” whose name was the notation of an autoglogue at the “World Cup. U n - Yes. Despite problems with drug cartels, the whole nation's hopes of changing the image of the football team, which contained important sports names such as Faustino Asprilia and Carlos Walderrama.

But the tournament did not go well, and on June 22, 1994, exactly Saturday, 26 years ago. Colombia was defeated 2-1 by the U.S., thanks to Escobar's autoglogue, which, apart from her surname and her hometown (Medel), had nothing to do with the notorious smuggler Pablo.

Criminal groups in Colombia who had mocked too much money for the national qualifications didn't quite welcome what happened. And because cities like Kali, or Medelini, had the highest murder rates in the world in those years, everything seemed to lead to the worst. Upon returning home, Andre's friends advised him not to go out into the streets to reduce tension, but he was taught to say that he did not want to hide from people. This decision would be fatal, in a city like Medelini, where 80 murders took place each week. He went to a nightclub, but that's where people started talking about the car. Escobar decided to leave, but as she went to the parking lot to get in the car, two people shot her with six bullets. They say the two killers screamed <x0...gool” while pulling triggers... Later, the murder took over a “cartel's”, which was sentenced to 43 years in prison but stood behind bars of only 11.