> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:30:26 -0700
> From: THE ROCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> That's nothing new. I do remember that after a previous world cup a player 
was killed
> in Colombia. His crime? He had either allowed or missed a goal.

It was Andres Escobar, who scored a goal against his team in a World Cup game 
with the United States in 1994. Some say that he was killed because "members of 
powerful drug cartels were angry at having lost millions of dollars in bets 
placed on the [Colombian] team's expected success." 

whole story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
srv/sports/soccer/longterm/worldcup98/history/articles/escobar.htm

sad story.

-mathis


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