Many times we hear football players, coaches and even fans who say before a crucial match that it's a match of life and death. Unfortunatlly this was exactly the case of Andres Escobar, Colombia's sweeper (or central defender), after his National Team returned home early from the World Cup, USA 1994.
No one really knows exactly what happened there, on July 2nd 1994 in a bar called "El Indio" in Medellin, where the 27-year-old player had been shot 12 times by 3 murderers. Most versions claim that the own goal that Andres scored just two weeks earlier in the game which Colombia lost 2:1 to USA, was the main reason. They say that these people were probably gambled much a lot of money for Colombia's win in this game and an accidental own goal by Escobar looked for them as a reason of losing their money.