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The World Cup Is Coming Back to Texas. The First Time, It Got Weird.
In the early afternoon on December 2, 1993, the Colombian National Police shot and killed Pablo Escobar as he attempted to escape from the roof of his hideout in Medellín. Then things got bloodier: With Escobar gone, the remaining Colombian cartels engaged in a power grab that threw their country into disarray—including its sports. “Colombia had been corrupted by the money of drug traffickers,” El Tiempo editor Gabriel Meluk reflected later. “That was seen especially in football.”You’re wondering what this has to do with Texas. Well, when the Colombian national soccer team arrived in the United States for the 1994 World Cup (held in nine cities, including six games in Dallas), they had already “collapsed mentally”: The new wave of cartels that effectively funded the…The post The World Cup Is Coming Back to Texas. The First Time, It Got Weird. appeared first on Texas Monthly.