Escobar's Own Goal 1/6

Medellin, the violent hub of Colombia's narcotics trade, was home to footballer Andrés Escobar, who was killed after scoring an own goal in the 1994 World Cup. Journalist and soccer fan Richard Sanders tries to gauge how a sporting error can have such appalling consequences.

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[iKyyLe]

They would have scored anyway look at the guy to Escobar's right 0:20. Escobar was only trying to stop them from scoring :/

[SodiumCyanide]

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"

If everyone paid the ultimate price for such a trivial mistake, we would all be dead

[IamWoodstaman]

The last words he heard were 'Thanks for the own goal' at gunpoint. don't believe me, search it up. I wouldn't play football in Colombia if I was a pro after this incident, Id give it a few years. The aftershock is still around it. It was an unlucky O.G anyway.

[MIKAELDENEBADON]

@SomdeReggae trash??? no.....WHITE FLOWERS. HE IS OUR IDOL.

[lencrod]

que hacer cuando mirarse al espejo duele?

[jiscell]

Como pudieron hacerlo Dios mioo, fue una equivocacion, la vida esta por encima de toooodoooo... que indignacionnn

[ColombianCasanova]

Awesome story...thank you for posting

[drummer619144]

Andres Escobars death, believe it or not, did not have much to do with his own goal...he just went out at night to a dangerous zone in Colombia and raised his voice (you have to understand he's a pro athlete, he had at least a bit of an ego) at the wrong people at the wrong time at the wrong place...That's all...I have strong reasons to believe my sources more than this documentary

[madridboy86]

"I think about how a man can died coz of a simple error on a football pitch"

no truer words have being spoken about Andres Escobar, coz he score a bloody own goal he lost his life coz of an error anyone of us can do on the pitch

[jesusofmaiden]

AMARILLISTA HIJO DE MIL PUTAS!!

[braveheart230482]

no entiendo por que gritan asi con entuziasmo los comentaristas sud americanos quando se le echa un gol a su proprio equipo ???