Higuita to sign off on Sunday
Source: Agencies |
January 21, 2010, Thursday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
RENE Higuita, the colorful goalkeeper known as "El Loco," will have his two-decade career feted by Colombia in Bogota this weekend.
Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, Diego Maradona, and Brazilian stars Ronaldo and Ronaldinho have been invited to Sunday's testimonial match between a team of Colombia all-stars and top players from the 1990s of the Colombian club Atletico Nacional. Organizers said it was unclear if the big-name invitees would attend.
Higuita, 43, last played in 2008 for the Colombian team Deportivo Pereira.
Higuita was famous for his frizzy hair and daring moves in goal - some successful, some unsuccessful.
In the 1990 World Cup, he was playing the ball at his feet far out of the area when Roger Milla of Cameroon stripped him and scored, knocking Colombia out of the final 16.
In a friendly at Wembley Stadium against England, he turned a routine save into a spectacular play. Instead of catching the ball shot at the goal, he performed a modified scissors kick - later the move was called "The Scorpion" - to kick the ball overhead and keep it from going in.
Higuita also served some prison time.
He was imprisoned in 1993 for acting as a go-between in a kidnapping case.
Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, Diego Maradona, and Brazilian stars Ronaldo and Ronaldinho have been invited to Sunday's testimonial match between a team of Colombia all-stars and top players from the 1990s of the Colombian club Atletico Nacional. Organizers said it was unclear if the big-name invitees would attend.
Higuita, 43, last played in 2008 for the Colombian team Deportivo Pereira.
Higuita was famous for his frizzy hair and daring moves in goal - some successful, some unsuccessful.
In the 1990 World Cup, he was playing the ball at his feet far out of the area when Roger Milla of Cameroon stripped him and scored, knocking Colombia out of the final 16.
In a friendly at Wembley Stadium against England, he turned a routine save into a spectacular play. Instead of catching the ball shot at the goal, he performed a modified scissors kick - later the move was called "The Scorpion" - to kick the ball overhead and keep it from going in.
Higuita also served some prison time.
He was imprisoned in 1993 for acting as a go-between in a kidnapping case.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
