Back in the 80s of the 20th century, Colombian football was controlled by the country's terrible drug syndicates.
Pablo Escobar owns a top club, as does his hated rival, the Cali Group.
From kidnapping referees to playing football in prison with Maradona, this is the story of drug dealer football...
By the mid-80s, at least 6 Colombian clubs were funded by big drug lords. Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellín drug cartel, received $50 million a day from cocaine and controlled Colombia's Atlético Nacional and Independiente Medellín (both of which are still active in the Colombian First Division).
The Cali Group operates their rival, the Cali Sports Team.
In 1989, Escobar's Independiente Medellín played against Sporting Cali. Cali won 3-2, but Medellín was outraged that referee Alvaro Ortega had cancelled a goal late in the game.
Escobar ordered the assassination of Ortega, who was shot a few days later.
Meanwhile, Escobar is assembling an Atlético Nacional team made up of star players, including Ferstino Asprilla and Scorpion-style save goalkeeper Rene Iguita.
In 1989, they became the first Colombian team to win the Copa Libertadores.
However, dubious stories arose on the road to victory ...
Before Atlético Nacional's semifinal victory against Danubio, a group of armed men broke into the referee's hotel room in the middle of the night.
They handed each official a briefcase filled with $50,000 and told them, "Your heads are valuable."
Atlético Nacional won 6-0.
In the final, Atlético Nacional played Olympia in Paraguay, which won 2-0 in the first leg.
Before the second leg in Medellín, the drug cartel struck again: "Either Atlético Nacional wins or you go home with the coffin", they told the referee.
After being equalized 2-2 on aggregate, Atletico Nacional won on penalties.
However, Escobar's men were not satisfied with the referee's performance.
After the match, they kidnapped the referee outside the city of Bogotá.
"We won, but you didn't get our message", they told him, and then beat him.
A year later, police approached Escobar and he faced extradition to the United States, with whom the drug lord made a deal to serve five years in a Colombian prison.
But this is no ordinary prison: Escobar himself built the "Cathedral of Our Lady", which contains a jacuzzi, helipad, bar and football field.
Colombian soccer stars are picked up there by bus, play football with Pablo, and they throw wild drug parties.
One day, a special guest arrived: Diego Maradona.
"It was like a luxury hotel," Maradona recalls. "We had a party with the best girl I've ever met."
In 1993, Pablo fled the "cathedral" and was later shot dead on a rooftop in the city of Medellín.
At his funeral, his coffin was covered with a National Athletic flag.
But if you think this will be the end of drug lord football, you're wrong...
In the 1994 World Cup, after a 5-0 victory over Argentina in the qualifiers, Colombia's World Cup prospects were bright.
However, when Colombia lost to Romania in the opening match, defender Luis Herrera's brother was shot by gangsters in Medellín.
Then came their infamous match against Team America...
In front of 93,000 fans at the Pasadena Rose Bowl venue, captain Andrés Escobar (not related to Pablo) scored a disastrous own goal in a 2-1 loss.
A few weeks later, the guard was shot dead outside a nightclub in Medellín.
His goal is said to cost drug syndicate bosses $3 million in bets.
After the murder, Colombian football promised to rectify. And for a while, it did.
But in 1997, Newcastle star player Fastino Asprilli received a killer call asking if he agreed to kill Paraguayan goalkeeper Jose Chilavelte.
Fortunately, Asprici succeeded in convincing the killer to abandon the idea.