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Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar's Colombia

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English
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Cassell (6 Jun. 2024)
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Publication Date
06/06/2024
ISBN-10
1788405234
Pages
304 pages
ISBN-13
9781788405232
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15.75 x 3.3 x 23.62 cm
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9781788405232
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David Arrowsmith (Author)
David Arrowsmith worked in the television industry for over 20 years – originating, developing and producing documentaries and unscripted programming for companies such as October Films, DSP, OSF, Zig Zag, Channel 5, Granada Television and the BBC. He is passionate about sport, history, biography and true crime, and some of his key commissions include 1966: Who Stole the World Cup?, Hatton, Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty, 8 Days That Made Rome and Adolf & Eva: Love & War. He was also involved in the development of the award-winning, Nobel Peace Prize-nominated documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields. David was born and raised in London but is proudly half-Colombian. In fact, he is the great-grandson of a former president and directly descended from four more. He now lives in Hove, where his paternal great-grandfather worked in a butcher’s shop, with his family. He has played football for over 35 years and has no plans to stop just yet.Read more about this authorRead less about this author
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Pablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power.

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football. Narcoball uncovers the incredible story of Colombian football during the early 1990s - shaped by drug lords, rivalries, and ambition.

It uncovers a football empire backed by cartels - where victory was a currency of its own, and defeat, a matter of life and death. This is a different story of Pablo Escobar and his rivals.

A tale of clandestine deals that reshaped Medellin's football clubs, where fortunes were won and lost. It unveils the extraordinary bonds that Escobar forged with football's luminaries and why his influence reached unprecedented heights, leading to the astonishing 5-0 victory over Argentina in Buenos Aires, the murder of referees, and the ruthless coercion of officials culminating in the killing of Andrés Escobar - the Colombian defender who paid the ultimate price for an own goal in the 1994 World Cup.

It is also an examination of a people's relationship with both the sport and the nefarious leaders that brought both pride and terror to their communities. Set against the U.

S War on Drugs, international threats, and government clampdowns, this is a gripping exploration of Colombian club football under Escobar's rise and fall. .

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