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A team emerges from the shadow of its past.<\/em><\/p>\n

Teams in the World Cup are generally split among three tiers. The top one consists of those that year in and year out field the best squads in the world\u2014including most of the previous World Cup winners and finalists, such as Brazil, Germany, and Argentina. The bottom tier consists of those from whom no one expects much, other than that they show up on time for matches. Among that group this year are Iran, Australia, and Algeria. But most teams fall somewhere in that second tier, where fans begin the tournament holding out hope that\u2014through a perfect storm of lucky bounces, mistaken calls, beneficial match draws, and brilliant overachievement\u2014their team will cobble together a World Cup championship. Colombia, who have qualified for the World Cup for the first time in sixteen years, is one of these teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe qualified for the 1962 World Cup, and the best thing you could say about the Colombian team from then until 1990 was that we tied with Russia in 1962 \u2026 It wasn\u2019t even a victory,\u201d said the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel V\u00e1squez, forty-one, the author of the highly acclaimed 2011 novel The Sound of Things Falling<\/em>, and an avid soccer fan who has closely followed the Colombian team his entire life. \u201cFootball is a very big element of the national unity. So the importance that football has had for Colombia has not been really reflected in the results on an international scale.\u201d <\/p>\n

That all seemed about to change with the emergence of the Colombian teams of the 1990s. Under its coach Francisco Maturana, the team developed a style of play known as \u201ctoque toque,\u201d or \u201ctouch touch.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s like the tiki-taka style we see today in Barcelona,\u201d said Sarah Castro, a sports reporter for Caracol Radio in Bogota, referring to the style of possession soccer that won Spain the 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n

The Colombian teams of the nineties centered around the midfield genius of Carlos Valderrama. With his lion\u2019s mane of wild orange curls, Valderrama looked top-heavy, but his feet seemed to rotate on a dancer\u2019s pivot. No defender could keep track of him. \u201cHe could do unbelievable stuff in just one square meter and dominate the field from there with incredible passes,\u201d V\u00e1squez said.<\/p>\n

Valderrama was surrounded by other flamboyant figures, including the powerful attacking midfielder Freddy Rinc\u00f3n; the deadly, unpredictable striker Faustino Asprilla; and the goalkeeper Ren\u00e9 Higuita, who created the scorpion kick, a ridiculous move in which he saved a ball sailing toward him by doing a standing backflip and kicking it free in mid-air with the soles of his feet. The team made Colombian soccer history when, in a World Cup qualifying match in 1993, it beat Argentina, in Argentina\u2014something no team had ever done before\u20145-0.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you refer to this match in Colombia, you don\u2019t even need to mention the rival,\u201d Castro said. \u201cColombians just say, \u2018El 5-0.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat game is like a national holiday for us,\u201d V\u00e1squez said.<\/p>\n

But the team never achieved the greatness that games like El 5-0 prefigured. In 1990, Colombia was knocked out of the World Cup by Cameroon in the round of sixteen, after a famous Higuita blunder, when he\u2019d come far out of his goal and mishandled the ball, leaving an empty net for Cameroon to score into. In 1994, the team didn\u2019t even make it that far. In place of great soccer achievement, those Colombian teams are largely remembered for their link to the Two Escobars, the drug lord Pablo and the soccer player Andr\u00e9s, a story well told in a 2010 ESPN 30 for 30 film of that title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose footballers were the products of a very difficult moment in our history,\u201d V\u00e1squez said. \u201cIn the eighties, the Medellin cartel and the Cali cartel had begun investing in football because they loved the sport. This legendary team of Colombia was in part a collateral effect of those drug years, the years in which Pablo Escobar, the Medellin cartel, and the Cali cartel were basically dominating Colombian life in all aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Six days after Colombian defender Andr\u00e9s Escobar scored an own goal in the 1994 World Cup, he was murdered outside a bar in Medellin. Pablo Escobar had been killed eight months earlier. The drug war within Colombia would soon begin to recede. \u201cIt is like a myth that Andr\u00e9s Escobar\u2019s death was related to the own goal in the World Cup,\u201d Castro says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nuance is not interesting, and the whole thing is despicable,\u201d Vasquez said. Essentially, it was a bar fight gone wrong\u2014one in which the well-mannered Escobar, known in Colombia as \u201cthe Football Gentleman,\u201d wanted no part. \u201cWe all remember where we were when Andr\u00e9s Escobar was killed, much in the same way we remember where we were when presidential candidate Luis Carlos Gal\u00e1n was murdered in 1989. It\u2019s one of those big moments of unreasonable violence that sticks in your mind,\u201d Vasquez said. \u201cIt was the last big murder to happen in a series of big murders that constituted the war between the drug dealers and the mafia against Colombian citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

It may have had a lasting effect on the soccer team as well. The Colombian team made it to the 1998 World Cup, in France, but it couldn\u2019t get out of the group stage there, either. \u201cWe thought we were here to stay,\u201d V\u00e1squez said of the country\u2019s three straight World Cup appearances in the nineties. \u201cAnd then for sixteen years, there was nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January 2012, Colombia was once again near the bottom of the South American qualifying standings. Over the five previous years, the team had essentially failed with four different coaches, most of whom had links with the teams of the nineties and none of whom lasted even two years in the job. For the first time since 1982, the Colombian soccer federation hired a foreign coach, the white-haired Argentine Jos\u00e9 P\u00e9kerman, who had led Argentina to the quarterfinals of the 2006 World Cup, where it suffered a heartbreaking loss on penalties against the host nation, Germany. He turned things around quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cP\u00e9kerman is independent of all the media and the whole sphere of sports in Colombia,\u201d Castro said. \u201cYou cannot link him with anyone in the Colombian soccer federation. He has started a new story with the Colombian national team.\u201d<\/p>\n

That new story has focused around the team\u2019s striker, Radamel Falcao, twenty-eight, who suffered a serious knee injury in January and may not be fully fit in time for the World Cup; and the twenty-two-year-old playmaker James Rodr\u00edguez. Both play for the club Monaco. Like P\u00e9kerman, as well as the Colombian team as a whole, Falcao and Rodriguez are distanced from the corruption of the nineties by more than just sixteen years. \u201cThey have become normal stars,\u201d Vasquez said. \u201cThat is something that can exist. This team hasn\u2019t grown up with the drug money. It hasn\u2019t grown up in a league where teams are owned by drug lords.\u201d<\/p>\n

P\u00e9kerman has tried to balance the youth and vitality of his team with experience. The team\u2019s captain, the defender Mario Yepes, thirty-eight, is the third-most capped player in Colombian history (behind Valderrama and Leonel Leonel Alvarez, the coach P\u00e9kerman succeeded), and he is partnered in central defense with Luis Perea, thirty-five. The backup goalkeeper, Faryd Mondrag\u00f3n, a fan favorite and the only remnant of the Colombian teams of the nineties, will turn forty-three during the World Cup. If he sees action, he\u2019ll become the oldest player ever to play in the tournament.<\/p>\n

For a team that has lived in the shadow of its past for so long, this World Cup could become its defining moment. \u201cThis is part of the story,\u201d V\u00e1squez said, \u201cthat there are no stories about this team. These guys now are really so regular. They\u2019re just good footballers. There\u2019s nothing much you can say about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next month in Brazil, they hope to change that.<\/p>\n

David Gendelman is research editor at <\/em>Vanity Fair. Follow him on Twitter at @gendelmand<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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