MundoAndino Home : Andes Colombia Guide at Mundo Andino
Rene Higuita
Jose Rene Higuita Zapata is a Colombian football goalkeeper who plays for Deportivo Rionegro and played 69 international matches for the Colombian team, in which he scored three goals.
Career
Higuita played majority of his club career with Colombian side Atletico Nacional, where he helped the team win the Colombian League on numerous occasions as well as the Copa Libertadores and Copa Interamericana, both in 1989.
He is famed for inventing the "scorpion kick", a clearance where the keeper jumps forward, arches his legs over his head and in doing so, kicks the ball away with his heels. This save ...
Continue reading the complete Rene Higuita's wikipedia entry
Need more information for your travel research or homework?
Ask your questions at the forum about Colombia international footballers or help others to find answers.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Rene Higuita
