✔️ 2022-09-28 20:20:18 – Paris/France.
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The name of Andrés Escobar is one of the most memorable and talked about in the history of Colombian football, not only because of the promising career that the player of National Athleticbut because of that goal against Romania in 1994 World Cup this not only catapulted the Colombian national team to early elimination, but also ended up costing him his life, according to one of the versions that are treated about his death.
The central defender was assassinated outside the El Indio nightclub in Medellín, at the hands of a man who, after complaining about his mistake in the international championship, attacked him with a gun. The bullets that ended his life lodged in a lung, stomach, neck and left forearm.
And although 26 years have passed since then, Netflix has decided to remove old wounds with a new series called "Goals Against"which seeks to tell various details about the life and death of “El Caballero del Fútbol”.
star actor Jean-Paul Uregothis six-episode production will arrive on the platform on November 2 and will also talk about this golden age of the Colombian national team and how the violence in the country also permeated it.
“It is the story of the dream of a country and a team which, match after match, was collapsing, into a nightmare that would result in its death,” Netflix said in the official synopsis.
As for the rest of the actors who will make up the cast of 'Goals Against,' they stand out Jean-Alex Castillo like Francisco Maturana, Laura Archbold as Pamela Cascardo (Andres Escobar's girlfriend) and Fernando Bocanegra representing Hernán Darío 'Bolillo' Gómez.
The miniseries will also have a cast of natural actors, who will be tasked with portraying other Colombian soccer stars, such as Rene Higuita, Leonel Alvarez, Luis Carlos Pereaamong others.
He was 27 and about to marry his girlfriend. He had recovered from a delicate knee injury which kept him away from football for some time and had the support of the national coach who said he would be Carlos' captain and natural heir. El Pibe” Valderrama on his departure. .. withdraw.
In Europe, we were also talking about him and saying that he was very close to signing for the AC Milan to replace the Italian player Franco Baresi, one of the best defenders in Europe. At that time, Andrés Escobar was a respected and important player. I got the 1989 Libertadores Cup with his team, the first of a Colombian club, and was part of one of the most memorable teams in the history of national football, this team that would qualify for a World Cup again, after 28 years, after the last and only participation in Chile 62.
When he was assassinated in July 1994, this was said to be due to differences between people associated with the bad deals of drug trafficking. It seems some of them bet that Colombia would have a better World Cup appearance and it wasn't like that. They lost a lot of money. The country could not assimilate what was happening and took refuge in the pain caused by the loss. Andrés Escobar's death was confirmation that things were not going well and were going from bad to worse. Violence was, and apparently still is, the natural state of mind of Colombians.
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