Where does Magico Gonzalez rank in the worlds best?

interesting video, makes me wonder if Pele or Maradona ever missed a pk, I know Messi and Ronaldo have, so did Roberto Baggio...

I guess we can say that Magico was a national treasure for Cadiz and thats why they didnt let him stay at Barcelona

 

Valderrama had Asprilla with him who was one of the best strikers in the world at the moment.

Cueto, I know nothing about so Im not going to be the douchebag that judge something I dont know.

Okocha, didnt dominate at the any club like Jorge did... that nigerian team had other great players as well.

Unlike Jorge, he literaly had nobody at El Salvador or Cadiz, it was just him and his dominance.

 

when Magico went to Valladolid, he was like Ronaldinho when he went to Milan, they were already party animals that cared little about the game anymore... who.res and drugs was all they had in their mind.

 

I dont know if you live in the usa but we have seen in espn a documental that tell us about what happened to Colombia in the 94 world cup.

Yes they were a very talented team with Valderrama and Asprilla dominating.

The Colombian team was getting a lot of cash from Escobar, the Colombian drug lord... they had extra-motivation when all that money was coming in.

Once the world cup started, Escobar went to jail, not more extra-money for the players, the confidence and motivation of the players went down, Colombia was having a drug war into their country, the players had a lot going on outside the field. They were not "protected" anymore by Escobar and other drug dealers were trying to get into the team...

Before the second game in the world cup, the Colombian team recieved a phone call saying that if the result was no good, one of the relatives of the players was going to die in Colombia, they failed, the relative was murdered... that was basically the end of Colombia tiki take, there was no spirit anymore, soccer was the last thing they had in mind...

Talent with unrealistic "motivation" had that team dominating, South America.

Again, Valderrama was a great player but so was Asprilla, you cannot give all the credit to El Pibe.

 

I have no interest in knowing about drug lords or anything with all that crap, I watched the documentary because it was about soccer.

The documentary is called "The Two Escobars" or something like that.

Escobar, the defender that was killed, had nothing to do with the other Escobar, they were two different people.

On that documentary, a lot of former Colombian players talked about all the money they got from the drug dealer, everything was great in Colombia, Pablo Escobar came from a poor barrio himself so he built houses for poor people, and he invested a lot of money on futbol, the sport he loved.

Once the Colombian players knew Escobar went to jail, the whole team went down on motivation, not only that, but with all the crime going on in Colombia, they didnt feel safe anymore, Pablo Escobar protected them.

Once Pablo went to jail, other drug lords were trying to take over, they were jelous of P. Escobar, and they knew that the Colombian national team was a product of Pablo's success, so they wanted to make an statement of who was going to run the drugs in Colombia.

When Colombia was eliminated of the world cup they went back home, none of the players wanted to go out, they were scared, they embarrassed themselves after they were clear favorites to win the world cup. Times were tough in Colombia.

One night, Escobar (the defender) wanted to go out at night, nobody wanted to go out with him to the club so he went by himself, people were messing with him at the club because of the own goal... as a big dude, he challenged those people to fight outside, then he was shot in the parking lot.

The people who shot him, according to the video were part of one of the drug families that were trying to take over the drug business...

Anyway, we are going out of subject here but that is the reason why Colombia was amazing and why the messed up.

I have a lot of respect for Valderrama but anybody that grew up in those days knows that Asprilla was a heck of a finisher too.

 

I never heard about this guy, Lobo Carrosco, but I guess he used to play for Barcelona.

Interesting what he says about Jorge.

"The whole Camp Nou applauds Magico's Goal against Barcelona" hahaha

Makes me think of h0w many players from visiting teams received ovacions from Barcelona fans...

 

def no Hugo Sanchez fans

 

why do Mexicans feel the need of jacking this thread? lol

 

again, make your own Hugo Sanchez thread haha

"There is only one Magician in soccer, he is from El Salvador" Maradona

 

I think Mexicans do bc they wont stop replying here