René Higuita crazy football - madness on football field

Posted by bumeral

July 29, 2008

Higuita activity continues in the past 40 years
But I do not want to talk about the rules of the game and the alleged things that are against the archers. From what I speak, motivated by this award that gave Higuita, which I think is sensational, is something else.

I want to talk about how some archers (few) will leave the mold, the prison break of the arc and add a unique beauty to football, almost unparalleled. This is what Karl Marx in Capital, when referring to the revolutionary act. The Scorpion, the game invented by René Higuita, is without doubt an act revolutionary sports.

And that revolution is rarely found in a masterly play or a perfect score. It is the revolutionary who flees for perfection, hates the completeness and runs toward risk, to change: precisely revolutionizes.

Beauty is useless and measured based on results or forecasts of no use. A rabona, a scorpion, a Chilean, a scissors, a boba, are all moves in themselves useless, do nothing, do not generate anything (except that end in goal) but when we see them, we can not but applaud.

That archer who quit the mold, imitating Felix Jose Luis Chilavert, Carlos Fernando Navarro Montoya, Hugo Gatti, René Higuita, will give us a lesson in life, learning single human demonstrations.

We should all demonstrate, risking always: is the best way to avoid falling into the mental flattening, in achatamiento soul.

Indeed, I feel an urgent need in schools put the videos of these gentlemen. The boys have to learn that, from the simplest place, it can do wonderful things. But it is necessary to be free, daring, study and worship.

What good would it to the kids of school age, see how big archers broke the rules, were happy, not let themselves be carried away by the prison money and professionalism of all competition!

How the futility becomes crucial thing! There is nothing more beautiful than a Chilean Enzo Francescoli, a rabona Claudio Borghi, a crazy departure of Hugo Gatti, but often ended in a goal from emboquillada. But that’s what matters! No matter the goal to poetry, and the challenge, to the amazement of seeing something different!

Has anyone ever heard that a Boca fan was angry with Gatti to emerge with the ball until the average stadium? How I laughed, I was never as much fun watching the follies of Loco or René Higuita!

These two gentlemen are revolutionaries of sport and our societies. If most people we had ten percent of the spirit of them, this world would be quite different.

The British are not stupid, no iban a choice they made the goal Diego Maradona. However, the Scorpion is undoubtedly the best move in the history of football along with the scissors of Mexican Negrete in the World 86. Of course this is just an opinion, as any survey is arbitrary.

And it would be crazy to think that the Scorpion is the best move precisely why, for being useless and beautiful and yet imposed to achieve perfection and efficiency.

What can not be questioned is that when the archers emerging from its simple role of his jail sport, football entire change, improvement, is full of beauty.

All archers in the world I say: there are at René Higuita, mad, mad, mad forever!

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René Higuita Jose Zapata. Born in Medellin, August 28, 1966. A Colombian soccer goalkeeper. His particular style of game, goalkeeper-player, according to some derivative of Hugo Gatti, and his peculiar personality, made him an idol in his country during the eighties and nineties.

Higuita was essential for a key change in the rules of football, because after his performance in the World of Italy 90, with spectacular and risky moves outside the area, a technical conference in Coverciano 1990, began to talk about the archer-player because, according to the tactical system, was needed boost an archer who knew to use their feet. This led to the rule that if a player returns to his own goalkeeper a ball with his feet, he can pick up not with their hands.

Subsequently Higuita was involved in numerous scandals that gradually led to lower his career.

Nevertheless, Higuita is recognized as one of the best goalkeepers in the history of South American football and a key figure in the rise of Colombia within the international football scene, being part of its “lyrical” golden generation next to Carlos Valderrama, Freddy Rincon, Adolfo “Train” Valencia, Faustino Asprilla, Leonel Alvarez and others.

Biography

Born in Castile, a poor neighbourhood in the city of Medellin. He was the son of an unmarried mother, Maria Dioselina Higuita, who took the surname. This would die several years after birth, which led to Rene remain next to his grandmother Ana Felisa. Her childhood was spent in the midst of great economic difficulties, so he worked as a seller of newspaper and conducted various trades to earn a living.

The wife of René Higuita called Magnolia and she has two sons, Andrew and Pamela. It is also the father of Cindy Carolina, the daughter of his first wife who died.

His income as a goalkeeper was very anecdotal. In a tournament of his school, where iban to select the best players for Independiente Medellin, Rene was the scorer of the team, but the goalkeeper was injured in his post and put it to him, becoming the undisputed master of the goal.

Career Development

His career began in athletics and National in 1981 was part of the selection of Antioquia 16 sub headed by Luis Alfonso Marroquín, who eventually would champion Colombia. He was then summoned to the national team youth who participate in South American in Paraguay in 1985, which dazzled by his football spectacle is the beginning of the new era of Colombian football. And with that rate for the World Youth in the Soviet Union that same year. Then the National on loan to Millonarios, where he had an outstanding season.

In 1986 return to play with the National, which began to be directed by Francisco Maturana and under his leadership achieved several of its most important triumphs. On May 31, 1989 the National athletes are crowned champion of the Copa Libertadores americas, the first victory in this tournament a Colombian team. The final game against Olimpia of Paraguay in Bogota, was defined by shots criminal Higuita and several shortcuts in the series.

In 1991 he traveled to Spain to play with Real Valladolid, but had no luck and left the team mid-season despite having enjoyed the confidence of his coach Francisco Maturana. He returned again with the National which crowned champion Colombia in 1994. In 1995 again reached the final of the Copa Libertadores americas National athletes who lost to Gremio of Porto Alegre. In this tournament is recalled that in the semifinals against River Plate in the game in Medellin and gained a free kick goal by Rene become that tied the series in the end was defined by penalty shots where Higuita again tackle the decisive penalty.

Higuita play after the club Veracruz in Mexico and then return to Colombia. Then the club would play AUC Ecuador.

In November 2004 participated in the farewell match of his colleague Paraguayan Jose Luis Chilavert. There were also present at the farewell of Diego Armando Maradona, I find where they stole the show doing his famous play “The scorpion” and scoring a goal of maximum penalty.

Higuita also is remembered for being the pioneer of the archers scorers, because during his career mark was 44 goals in official games as the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, 37 by way of penalty and seven others by the free-kick . The record boasts what Rogerio Ceni, player still active.

Selection of Colombia

René Higuita was summoned for the first time the selection of Colombia higher led by Francisco Maturana for americas Cup 1987, to play an outstanding performance and ranks third in the tournament.

In 1989 the selection achieves classified the World Cup in Repechage against Israel. In the championship, which took place in Italy, shortcuts and a penalty against Yugoslavia was becoming a figure of the contest, performing risky actions that almost never been seen in a championship of this kind. Colombia ranked the eighth-finals, which will be playing against Cameroon. In that game Higuita left his goal to make one of his typical game, which was to move the ball up the middle of the stadium, but Roger Milla managed to snatch the ball and score the goal that would draw to Colombia’s tournament. Higuita was identified as responsible for the elimination, because without their reckless move the outcome could have been different.

Higuita was an idol in his country and elsewhere are offering products with his image, from shirts to notebooks. On September 7, 1995 achieved great international fame after a legendary play in the Wembley stadium. During a match that play against England selection Colombia, Higuita rejected a shot by Jamie Redknapp The Scorpion, an acrobatic and risky maneuver that is already part of the history of football. In it the goalkeeper throws his body forward and being in the air hits the ball with the soles of the booties, bringing previously both feet over his back. I recently acknowledged in an interview that the spectacular stop, and the legendary scorpion, conducted by who saw the line to lift the flag indicating offside, and then the line like he had to stop and quickly fell from the pennant, according to the same player. On July 22, 2008 such a move was elected in the portal English football footy-boots.com, after a massive vote by Internet, as the best in the history of soccer , which says a lot of spectacular.

As goalkeeper in the selection Colombia played in 68 international matches, he scored 54 goals and 3; his last performance with the selection was americas Cup in 1999, convened by the coach Javier Alvarez.

Scandals

Its public scandals began in 1991 when he went to visit the prison’s Cathedral to the famous drug trafficker and leader of the powerful Medellin cartel, Pablo Escobar, who was detained there and who stated publicly friend. But the most serious of all occurred on June 4, 1993 when he was arrested for being involved in a case of kidnapping. Apparently, Higuita mediated in the release of the daughter of a friend, who had been abducted, which was prohibited by Colombian law. As a result, was detained more than six months in jail National Model Bogota, which cost him his involvement with the Colombian selection in the 1994 USA World therefore undoubtedly Higuita was the archer’s favorite technical Francisco Maturana, who stated Colombia that the selection was very different with Higuita in the playing field. In prison even make a hunger strike (recently, Higuita won a lawsuit because the Colombian State demonstrated that his detention was unjustified).

Subsequently, was involved in a fight with the sports commentator Cesar Augusto Londono, who took a punch in one eye when he found him at an airport.

On November 23, 2004, proved positive for cocaine after a review conducted after a game between his team, the AUC, and Olmedo. As a result, the Ecuadorian Football Federation suspended it for six months.

Reality Show

In the first half of 2005, Higuita participated in the reality show “The Island of the Famous: A pirate adventure” and its sequel “The big bet”, Channel RCN, both adaptations of the Survivor format, the company also footballers Leonel Alvarez and Ricardo Perez.

As object staff took an awning. In the first part of the “Island of the Famous: A pirate adventure,” was among the 5 finalists and the continued, “The big bet” won second place.

During his stay in this reality made famous phrases like “If this is war, not peace arrives.”

In the second half of 2005, also attended from reality “Far Change” program in which Rene dramatically changed his appearance by including a more stylized, causing commotion at the national level.

“El Loco” (as they call it), among others underwent liposuction procedures, increased chin, dental aesthetics, professional stylist, among others.

The return

The return to football Higuita was the July 21, 2007, when it publicly announced that Lara will play in FC lair in the first division league in Venezuela. In his first game with the team larense received two goals, one of Peter Gudiño and another Naill Vargas. The clash ended with the two matched Monagas Sport Club in the second day on August 12, Higuita visited the city of Caracas in the encounter between Italy and Deportivo lair. The cancerbero received a new goal in the tie to one, in which Higuita tried to make two spectacular plays in his style, which by little become caraqueño many of the table.

Since January 2008 Higuita signed with second division club Deportivo Rionegro his country where he was champion of the First B in 2008-1 and his great performance before he was hired to play, with nearly 42 years, with first division club Deportivo Pereira. So, get fit Higuita hopes to finish his career in the health club Nacional de Medellin. Higuita states that will play to 45 years and that after his retirement he would like to work as technical director or doing political career focusing on support for the Colombian sports.

Despite the passage of time, even the presence of Higuita generates great expectation, attracts people to stadiums and remains a spectacle for fans who want to see again in the field in this spectacular, brilliant and very special football player.

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