Rene Higuita and the legend of El Loco – 30 years since the scorpion kick at Wembley
The idea came to Rene Higuita as some children in Colombia were advertising for Soda. One made a football in the air in the air and instinctively threw both legs behind the bike and hit the penalty goalkeeper.
Two years later, the stars cheating in the routines of training and heating routines were aligned to write Higuita’s legacy under the hazy Wembley projectors.
British midfielder Jamie Redknapp’s wrong effort, dragged towards the goalkeeper, who is already famous for its flashy style, watched that he fell on his head before moving forward and shaking his heels like a scorpio’s tail.
“The perfect ball” was, Higuita Netflix documentary ‘Higuita: Removes on the Scorpio Road. “I thought,” It’s okay. “
In half of the long black curls flowing from behind in half of the forearm, which broke the fall with two hands on the grass, Higuita immediately exploded into the iconic grin.
In the interpretation of Sky Sports on the night of September 6, 1995, there were Martin Tyler, who initially thought that the referee’s whistle should have gone – after all, Linesman lifted the flag – but the game continued.
“I’m confused,” Tyler says to BBC Sport. “In real time, nobody would do it, why should they do it? As if there was something mysterious. It was completely unexpected. Jamie blocked Redknapp and deceived many of us!”
Bryan Robson, a part of the UK coaching team, was laughing on the bench, and only 20,000 people filtered a similar reaction between fans, although he filtered the national stadium for a Wednesday night on Wednesday night at a time characterized by low participation.
“There was this silence, people were trying to grasp the new ones.” “Then everyone just entered the mixture of laughter and applause.”
England, Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan assigned by Colombia -based Steve Howy, assigned to present a forward scout report, assumed that a Faustino Asprilla should stop.
“Higuita was not exactly a very reliable character, he used to go out and dragged forward and joined the game, he was definitely crazy. So there wasn’t exactly a surprise for someone like him,” Howy says.
“Everyone thought that the referee had blown the whistle, but as we learned quickly, if he had entered it, he would have been counted.”
Otherwise, an unforgettable friend was finished, but Higuita had fans who tried to recreate their savings in parks and playgrounds in the country.
Tyler, “a particular goalkeeper was only eccentricity at a certain moment, which is a commentator’s eyes in the rubbing.” “This was really like Rovers Roy … Some kind of school child, fictional things.”
Nevertheless, this proved Higuita’s global descriptive moment, but it was just another episode of a goalkeeper who scored 43 career goals, inspired a new law that changed games and returned to the Colombian team after being sent to jail to a cartel kidnapping.
