In 1994, Colombia defender Andres Escobar scored an own goal at the World Cup and died telling the tale.
It is one of the sport’s most sinister stories. The murder of the captain affectionately known as El Caballero del Futbol – the Gentleman of Football – outside a nightclub in Medellin after Colombia’s shock exit shook football to its core.
In six fateful cracks of a .38 caliber pistol, the life of a hero was extinguished, a nation was plunged into mourning, and a sense of injustice and anger was inflamed over the rampant drugs trade which gripped the country.
This is football’s most chilling
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