Click on link to listen to an Interview with Jeff Zimbalist, one of the directors of “The Two Escobars,” who talks about why they chose to tell this story.
If you still have a spirit for more soccer after the World Cup, the opportunity arrives at your feet like a the ball to the goal.
This weekend, on Friday, August 27, and running until September 2 “The Two Escobars” will be shown in San Francisco. The documentary film tells the story of the best soccer team ever to come out of Colombia and the country’s most prominent narcotics trafficker, Pablo Escobar.
El Loco Higuita. El Pibe Valderrama. Faustino Asprilla all played soccer in the nineties. Their moves—which have become celebrated memories— combined the ease of the Brazilians with the certainty of Argentina. The Colombian team was a colorful, vibrating faithful reflection of the soul of their country.
The kick of the scorpion, which ran Higuita in Wembley Stadium in 1995, remains one of the best pictures in the history of soccer. The boy became a classic, his acrobatic figure made even more attractive by his voluptuous black hair; barely Pibe Valderrama was the blonde!
They were the most charismatic team on earth. A dribble of El Tren Valencia and then surrendered networks.
But their joy was always suspect. Pablo Escobar Gaviria in Colombia and still reigned, as shown in the documentary The Two Escobars, all those guys fantastic wonders that club Pacho Maturana, who led one of the voices more honest about what happened in those crazy years, were fed on the “pattern” as it was called the chief of the narcos.
The narcos are medieval. His system is to have armies of servants. And they are murderers. Referees executed by not favor teams Pablo Escobar. Selective bombing. Kidnapping. Colombia, roughly described, was in the early nineties a reign of terror, whose residents were disadvantaged, as remnants of an economy with money insufflated cocaine, a world-class soccer, while the wealthy, well some favored Escobar’s business.
That’s what the film by the brothers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, included in the series 30 ESPN 30, a pleasant collection of 30 documentaries that tell stories related to sports occurred in 30 years, from 1979 to 2009.
In the case of Andres Escobar, a defender of the Colombian national team so unhappy, scored an own goal during the World Cup in 1992 and was then killed, Zimbalist found the point to talk about sport and tragic saga of Paul Escobar angle to show a society that was compliant with the illegal businesses that made heroes of criminals and then, when the State decided to fight crime, suffered the nightmare of executions of political destabilization and even the end of his short period of soccer glory.
“This is not a story about who pulled the trigger (to kill Andres Escobar), a story about the responsibility of a society,” said Jeff Zimbalist in an interview.
The 2 Escobars deals, said the filmmaker, on the “mysterious and unexplored concept of narco soccer.”
But, of course, the film is full of soccer pictures, of goals that are “painting” like crying at the edge of climax a reporter at the time.
So, to heal the Raw World with popcorn, giant screen, Dolby sound, The 2 Escobars display from August 27 at the Kabuki theaters in San Francisco.
All information on buying tickets, schedules and technical specifications of the film: www.the2escobars.com.
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