Sad Moment Popular Footballer Was Shot 6 Times Because Of What He Did During a Match

An historical event happened in 1994 when Columbia football team was highly one of the top rated team to win the cup.

The Columbia team were flying high in the qualifying matches and they successfully got rid of Argentina with a comfortable 5-0 win.

Meanwhile, in a turn of event, they were dealt a major blow after loosing 2-1 to the US national team. This caused alot of anger among Columbia fans because it was very sad to take for the country to miss out on the opportunity to win the world Cup.

One of the best player for Columbia was the culprit as he scored an unfortunate own goal. After defender Andres Escobar diverted the ball into his own net early on, the US then succeeded in beaten Columbia due to the own goal. Unfortunately, the defender was attacked by a deadly group of fans who were believed to be drug dealers.

Thorough research that was carried out shows that the murder was carried out by a strong drug cartel who invested a huge some of money to place a bet on the game which they failed to win, so he decided to take a brutal revenge by taking the life of the defender.

People who witnessed how he was killed said that he was shot six times, and every time they shot him, the killers shouted Goal. So an entertaining football match led to the death of a legend, just because he scored an own goal.