The "World Cup" football match is a football battlefield that makes fans all over the world boil with blood, and whenever they look at the athletes on the stadium and compete fiercely, the surrounding audience can't help but feel a cold sweat in their hearts.
But at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, just as all Colombian football fans pinned their hopes on the "Escobar", who has always performed well, he used a beautiful slalom kick to shoot the football into his home goal, allowing the enemy team to win easily.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and watching the players they are looking forward to doing such a "heartbreaking" thing, many Colombian fans have difficulty calming down their anger. So after his return, an unforeseen encounter made Escobar pay for his mistake with his life...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > he was a stubborn but footballer</h1>
Escobar, a Colombian boy, was born on March 13, 1967. Escobar's family conditions are ok, but the young Escobar does not know how to cherish this innate "luck".
In the eyes of parents, the best way out for children is of course to study and become talented, but Escobar is not interested in learning at all. And because of the favor of his parents, Escobar's temperament is very stubborn, always doing what he wants.
Mischievous in class and naughty after class, Escobar's parents often receive "complaint" calls from teachers and parents because of their son's "debauchery". But even though his father repeatedly lectured Escobar with his harshest face, he always looked indifferent.
In desperation, Escobar's parents can only go with nature and try to cultivate from the things their sons like. After some in-depth conversation, Escobar told his parents that he really had no interest in learning and preferred football.
In the eyes of Escobar's parents, football is just a sport conducive to physical fitness, and it does not seem to be of much use to Escobar's future personal development.
But since this is the only thing Escobar likes and is willing to give his energy, parents can only do it according to Escobar's wishes for the time being.
With the consent of his parents, Escobar, who originally liked to skip class to play football, became more unscrupulous, but as Escobar himself said, he really loved football, so it didn't take long for him to really come to the fore in football.
Escobar signed up for the school's soccer team and worked very punctually and diligently every day to train in physical fitness and skills, and after several selections, Escobar became a backbone member of the school soccer team who was entrusted with the task of playing friendly football matches with other schools.
After several varsity matches, Escobar lived up to expectations and performed well on the pitch, often working with his teammates to win titles. Over time, Escobar has not only gained countless fans and little fans in the surrounding schools, but also successfully targeted many professional football clubs.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > outstanding performance and became the hope of the national team</h1>
Escobar used his strength to become a small local football star, and as he grew older, many professional teams began to extend an olive branch to Escobar, hoping that he could join his football team and continue to run to a bigger and stronger field.
Escobar's parents were surprised to see that their son really had a small achievement in playing football and was admired and envied by many young people. Because when he promised Escobar to devote himself wholeheartedly to football, it was only to let the naughty Escobar settle down, and he did not think that this kind of thing would be enough to make a person.
With his love and the encouragement and support of a large wave of fans, Escobar has become more diligent and more committed to his professional skills training day and night.
At the age of 19, Escobar joined the Colombian national football team with excellent results. Undoubtedly, this is a great honor for the young Escobar, and at the same time the most powerful encouragement.
Escobar, who entered the national team, was assigned the role of defender. As we all know, the defender is a very difficult role to shine, more often, can only do the best for other players to do the best. But how to say that sentence, "Gold shines everywhere", Escobar guarded the most inconspicuous position, but still played a very dazzling result.
After a variety of large and small games, Escobar can not only help his teammates to do a good job of defense, but also can play a wonderful ball performance at key moments, winning the love of countless spectators, whenever the Colombian national football team plays, the handsome and powerful Escobar has become the focus of many fans.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > a momentary negligence, kicking the fatal "oolong ball"</h1>
However, there is an old Chinese saying, which is called "blessings and misfortunes lie on the misfortunes of misfortunes and blessings depend on them." With 99 percent effort and one percent luck, Escobar scored into the national football team in one fell swoop, realizing the dreams that countless football fans were looking forward to but never touched.
But at the same time, it is precisely because of this identity and more difficult tasks that it has brought irreparable doom to his ordinary life.
In 1993, the FIFA World Cup qualifiers were in full swing. The Colombian national football team, trained and led by the famous football coach Mathulana, rushed to the 1994 FIFA World Cup hosted by the United States.
Prior to that, colombian teams had achieved impressive results in the finals at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, so they were equally confident about the game four years later.
In the qualifiers, the Colombian team broke through, repeatedly beating their opponents, making the strong Argentine team their own defeats with 2:1 and 5:0 defeats. Many fans predict that perhaps the crown of this World Cup will really fall into the hands of Colombia's "dark horse" team, which is making rapid progress.
In 1994, the prelude to the World Cup was grandly opened at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, USA, and the Colombian team first faced the Romanian team.
The Romanian team is strong, so the Colombian team did not get too good results, but fortunately, the mentality is optimistic, thinking that it is normal to occasionally fail at the beginning, after all, winning and losing is a common thing, as long as the follow-up matches try to catch up and surpass.
After the match against Romania, the Colombian team faced the host Team usa a few days later. As we all know, the United States is a very good country in science and technology and economy, but in sports, it has not achieved much.
As a result, the Colombian team seems to have prepaid the result of their final victory, and they have not shown due attention to the American team, and they are very lazy throughout the game.
The most feared thing on the battlefield is to underestimate the opponent too much, so as to relax the vigilance. The U.S. team saw the various performances of the Colombian team on the field, and obviously could easily beat themselves, but they did not play at the level they deserved.
After a stalemate match, the U.S. team instead gained confidence and launched a fierce attack on the Colombian team. Tens of thousands of American fans cheered on the pitch, and the American team rose in an instant, and after just a few dozen minutes, it rushed directly to the Colombian team's penalty area.
Seeing that the morale of the opponent was getting stronger and stronger, Escobar of the Colombian team was so nervous that he kicked a ball intended to be used to counter the American team straight into his own goal.
The oolong ball appeared, and the American team effortlessly won a point, while the Colombian team was even more confident and directly discouraged. At the end of the game, the Colombian team lost the battle and had to return home to accept the condemnation. Its coach resigned because of deep self-blame, while its players silently accepted the accusations and questions of countless fans.
On the battlefield, it is understandable to be defeated by an opponent, but like Escobar, sending himself to a dead end is difficult for many fans to let go, especially for many Colombian fans with extreme emotions, Escobar's behavior is almost as unforgivable as the "traitor" in the war.
How could Escobar not know the seriousness of this incident, he represented the country, and in the World Cup, which attracted global attention, his own momentary mistakes directly humiliated the entire Colombian country in front of the people of the world.
He blamed himself for staying at home to reflect on his mistakes, questioning himself why he had made such a low-level mistake that day.
After a few days, Escobar finally did not want to continue to hide at home, because endless self-blame could not save anything, and only by working harder in future games could he make up for the shame caused by this oolong ball. He walked aimlessly into a bar, intending to get back into a drunken wake, but extreme fans were reluctant to give Escobar a chance to remedy his mistakes.
On July 2, 1994, several extreme fans walked up to Escobar's wine table, and after some reprimands, shot and killed Escobar.
Immediately after, the news that the Colombian team members were robbed and killed by fans because of an unintentional oolong ball spread throughout the streets. Other players could not stand this excessive punishment, retired early, left the national team, and since then, the Colombian football team, which has not risen long ago, has once again fallen into a downturn.