This Monday marks 29 years since Colombia thrashed Argentina 5-0 at the Monumental stadium, in Buenos Aires, on September 5, 1993.
Every year, the country remembers that game with which the ‘Tricolor’ qualified for the 1994 World Cup, with a historic result, thanks to the goals of Freddy Rincón (41 PT and 29 ST), Faustino Asprilla (5 and 30 ST) and Adolfo Valencia (40ST).
But this 2022, the commemoration is even more special, as it is the first time that Colombians remember that milestone without one of its great managers: Freddy Rincon.
the feat
The team was made up at that time by Óscar Córdoba, Luis Fernando Herrera, Luis Carlos Perea, Alexis Mendoza, Wilson Pérez, Leonel Álvarez, Gabriel ‘Barrabás’ Gómez, Freddy Rincón, Carlos Valderrama, Adolfo Valencia and Faustino Asprilla.
The sports chronicles remember that game as a game of “exacerbated claw and moderate violence”. This is how the journalist Mauricio Silva described it in his book ‘The 5-0 or the incredible chronicle of the match that forever changed the history of Colombian soccer’.
The Argentine magazine ‘El Grafico’, which was considered an institution in soccer matters, rated Carlos el ‘Pibe’ Valderrama’s performance with 10 points.
That same publication circulated with a black cover after the game.
His mourning image was titled with yellow letters that read: ‘Shame!’.
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The memory of Freddy Rincon
“We knew we had to handle the ball because they were going to come out with everything. We had the patience. When we scored the second goal we noticed how desperate they were, but we wanted to keep scoring and when the fifth came, Tino wanted to make a little play those… We were so angry about what they had done to us and what they had told us, that the more goals we scored, the better”Rincón said in an interview with ‘Win Sports’ in 2019.
After the death of the ‘Colossus’, on April 13, another anecdote of the player of that day was known.
Jhon Jairo Restrepo, who in 1993 worked as a kinesiologist in the Colombian National Team, and was present in the famous 5-0 in Buenos Aires against Argentina, recalled that Diego Maradona himself, who was in the stands, asked for Rincón’s shirt.
“(Maradona) He called me and told me why not give him a t-shirt and hopefully it was Freddy Rincón’s, the number 19 that he used. I told him that I was going to convey the message to him and let’s see what he says. When the game was over, I told Freddy. In the midst of the hubbub, that got bogged down. I told him and he told me now, now, now. Fortunately, he did not give it to me, but he was going to send it to him, he was going to give it to him, “Restrepo told Win Sports.
“I told the prop man to give me a shirt to give to Diego. I don’t know what shirt he gave me and I went to give it to him in the stands, because he was waiting. You must remember that he applauded us at the end, he congratulated us “he added.
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