Asprilla saved Chilavert?
Asprilla saved Chilavert?
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Faustino Asprilla: Ex-Colombia striker urged hitman not to kill Jose Luis Chilavert
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Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Asprilla made 54 appearances for Newcastle between February 1996 and January 1998
Former Colombia and Newcastle striker Faustino Asprilla says he had to convince a hitman not to kill Paraguay goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert after a World Cup qualifying match in 1997.
Asprilla told Colombian television channel TelePacifico that the gunman called his hotel room after he and Chilavert were both sent off in the match, which Paraguay won 2-1.
"Are you crazy?" he recalls saying.
"You will destroy Colombian football. What happens on the pitch stays there."
Asprilla, who was speaking on a documentary to celebrate his 50th birthday last weekend, was one of the top names in Colombian football in the 1990s, scoring 20 goals in 57 appearances for his country.
Colombia defender Andres Escobar was shot dead outside a bar in Medellin in 1994, in apparent retribution for an own goal he scored days earlier that hastened the country's exit from the World Cup in the United States.
Faustino Asprilla: Ex-Colombia striker urged hitman not to kill Jose Luis Chilavert
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Faustino Asprilla
Faustino Asprilla made 54 appearances for Newcastle between February 1996 and January 1998
Former Colombia and Newcastle striker Faustino Asprilla says he had to convince a hitman not to kill Paraguay goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert after a World Cup qualifying match in 1997.
Asprilla told Colombian television channel TelePacifico that the gunman called his hotel room after he and Chilavert were both sent off in the match, which Paraguay won 2-1.
"Are you crazy?" he recalls saying.
"You will destroy Colombian football. What happens on the pitch stays there."
Asprilla, who was speaking on a documentary to celebrate his 50th birthday last weekend, was one of the top names in Colombian football in the 1990s, scoring 20 goals in 57 appearances for his country.
Colombia defender Andres Escobar was shot dead outside a bar in Medellin in 1994, in apparent retribution for an own goal he scored days earlier that hastened the country's exit from the World Cup in the United States.
"Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 percent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIPs at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds." - Kaduna Nzeogwu
Re: Asprilla saved Chilavert?
Now thats a $#%-hole.
Re: Asprilla saved Chilavert?
KPOM this south American countries are worst off.ANC wrote:Now thats a $#%-hole.
Re: Asprilla saved Chilavert?
kajifu wrote:KPOM this south American countries are worst off.ANC wrote:Now thats a $#%-hole.
No they are just ahead of the curve. They were doing kidnapping about 2 decades before Nigeria is even thought about.