Carlos valderrama age
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The book has closed on the illustrious playing career of Colombia’s most famous footballer, Carlos Valderrama, and all for the lack of an alarm clock. Rainbow Blue Nelson traces the history of the Afro from Pescaito.
“The meeting was at six thirty and I woke up at eight. I understood that when this happens to a footballer it’s best to retire,” in his inimitable laid-back style this was Carlos Valderrama’s way of calling it a day.
With that Zen-like logic, a trademark flick of the Afro and a gentle shrug of the shoulders, a line was drawn under the playing career of Colombia’s most-capped player. The greatest hair in football has officially left the stadium. The date was January 6, 2004.
The dawn meeting had been scheduled to take place the previous day with doctors of Union Magdalena, the hometown club where he had made his professional debut as a precocious teenager in 1981. It was hoped by club officials, that it was also where he would also finish his career. They were wrong. They should have bought him an alarm clock for Christmas.
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Love and loathing in Buenos Aires: My life chasing Diego Maradona
It's with mixed feelings that I see my biography of Diego Maradona hitting the streets – again. To be accurate, this is not so much a new book but the latest revised and updated edition of a tome I first completed back in 1996. Since then I have lost count of the number of editions that have been published around the world of "The Hand of God", in English, and translated into every conceivable language, from Dutch to Chinese.
There seems to be an enduring appetite for this flawed genius of the game of football that transcends cultures and nations, more so perhaps than that felt for any other sportsman, dead or alive. But chasing Diego over all these years, and keeping track of his helter-skelter life, off and on the pitch, has been an exciting as well as wasting experience. While following Maradona over the years has enhanced my love of football, my relationship with the player has seen love mixed in with loathing, for what he had done to himself, and what he did to me, with drugs and betrayal part of our shared e
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Carlos Valderrama
Colombian footballer (born 1961)
For the baseball player, see Carlos Valderrama (baseball).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Valderrama and the second or maternal family name is Palacio.
Carlos Alberto Valderrama Palacio (Colombian Spanish:[ˈkaɾlosalˈβeɾtoβaldeˈramapaˈlasjo]; born 2 September 1961), also known as "El Pibe" ("The Kid"),[3] is a Colombian former professional footballer and sports commentator for Fútbol de Primera, who played as an attacking midfielder. Valderrama is considered by many to be one of the greatest South American players in history and one of the best players of his era.[4][5] In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
A creative playmaker, he is regarded as one of the best Colombian footballers of all time, and by some, as Colombia's greatest player ever. His distinctive hairstyle, as well as his precise passing and techni
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