That year, right from the qualifying matches, Colombia showed outstanding form with 25/26 wins. This made the "football king" Pele not hesitate but "prophesy" that this would be the number 1 candidate for the 1994 World Cup championship.
However, that possibility did not happen, but instead the team and fans faced a nightmare. The dark night covered the country with mutual cleaning matches between drug gangs, the government was not very interested in showing helplessness in controlling the order of countries. That is the reason why the players playing for the national team could not focus on the competition.
Meeting Romania in the opening match, Colombia lost 1-3 to Indonesia. Many betting tycoons "called out" because they failed to send threats from their homeland to the players, even related to their lives.
The scary thing is that the force outside the law does not stop at threatening, they curse a player. That is the tragic story of center back Andres Escobar. In the second match against the US, Escobar's efforts to block John Harkes's cross accidentally hit the back of his net. After losing, Colombia was quickly eliminated from the 1994 World Cup from the group stage.
Of course, this information is sad for the whole country, but only betting tycoons suffer the most losses. The angry storm poured down on Escobar. Ten days after the disaster in the US, he was shot dead outside the El Indio nightclub in the Medellin suburbs. The perpetrator dropped 12 bullets consecutively at the unfortunate central defender.
Escobar's fiance - Pamela Carscado later recalled in tears that terrifying scene: "I was stunned. I am living with the love of my life, getting ready to get married, having a daughter. Then I woke up, and everything was gone. For me, life officially stopped from that day.
Escobar's death caused a stir around the world. His funeral in Medellin was attended by more than 120,000 people. Escobar's net is covered with a Colombian flag. Going back to the match, you are a improper culprit, you are not wrong, your only mistake is living in the wrong period!
