He has been one of the players with more technical and magic in Colombian soccer. What others only dared to do in training, he did on the pitch in an official match, he was a juggler. He once scored a great goal for another who was irreverent on the field of play.
For the second date of the semi-final home runs Atletico Nacional receives Millionaires at the Atanasio Girardot. The ‘purslane’ will suffer the absence of Giovanni Moreno that the remainder of the championship is lost due to injury, while the ambassadors cannot count on John Paul Vargas who is in the Costa Rica National Team. The game starts this Tuesday at 8:05 p.m.
“Honestly, I forgot where I was.” Carlos Enrique Estrada grew up playing soccer on the beaches of Tumaco. There where barefoot children begin to have a special connection with the ball and an extraordinary sensitivity. The talented young man wanted to follow in the footsteps of Willington Ortiz, Eladio Vásquez or Domingo Tumaco González. His family moved to Buenaventura and later to Cali where he finished his studies.
The ‘Gambeta’ did not pass the tests or in the America neither him Deportivo Cali and continued to play at the amateur level. One day they saw him and sent him to Ibagué where he finally had the opportunity to Sports Tolima. By 1983, Cali realized his mistake and signed him. In 1986 he was playing a match in Armenia and Luis ‘Chiqui’ Garciacoach of Quindío, told him that the other year he wanted him in millionaires. With the people of the capital he lived his best moments.
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Millonarios sought to defend his title in 1988 and on the tenth date of the home runs He visited Atlético Nacional. The ‘Chiqui’ team had gone 26 games without losing. That December 4 was an afternoon full of great goals at the Athanasius Girardot. At 11 minutes, alexis garcia He took a shot of more than 30 meters and beat Omar Franco.
The best would come in 49. Mario Vanemerak took a free kick encompassed into the area. He received the ‘gambet’ on his back and with his body he was protecting the ball while making a ’21’ with his foot and knee. Neither Leonel Alvarez in Hector Cortina they could do nothing against the genius of the Nariñense who then put the ball on his forehead, advanced a couple of steps and finished off a cross against an immobile Rene Higuita.
“Sincerely i forgot where i was. It all happened very fast. The tie move, my customary celebration, and the hit. Suddenly, I felt my vision blur. I ran my hand across my forehead and I couldn’t see out of my left eye”, he told El Tiempo at the time. All because Estrada went to celebrate on the northeast side and the spectators received him at the point of projectiles: batteries, coins, stones. One of them hit her in the eye.
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The ‘Gambeta’ had to leave the game and entered Jair Abonia. León Villa scored the second for Nacional with a half turn in the area and JJ Galeano the third. Millonarios lost undefeated and the purslane caught up with him in the lead, but Estrada left a jewel in the Athanasius. Upon arriving in Bogotá, the doctor told him that it was best to spend the night in the Palermo Clinic because of the state of his eye and that’s how he should have done it. In the end he recovered and helped Millonarios win the estrella 13.
While the ‘Gambeta’ Road was in the room of the clinic, he left a reflection to the journalist Víctor Rosa of El Tiempo: “It was my imprudence. However, I think there radio media that incite people and that, instead of encouraging the local team, they start shooting at the visitor and that’s not right. I congratulate the green fans, but it is not necessary to arrive at the exaggerations”.
