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Andres Escobar
Andres Escobar Saldarriaga was a Colombian football player, who was shot and killed in Medellin. The motivation for the murder is unclear; some attribute the murder to the own goal that Escobar scored in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, since that goal brought terrible gambling losses to several drug lords. Another theory is that his death was unrelated to football and was instead the result of a bar fight that left several people wounded.
Football career
Escobar was a defender for Colombia in the Football World Cup in 1990 and 1994. His jersey number was 2, and was known by ...
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