Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: David Cannon via Getty Images Football in Colombia is a massive phenomenon and fans of the sport worship their ...

Rene Higuita is many things to many people. His name conjures in the minds of many the image of the wild-haired goalkeeper ...

The South American goalkeeper was also famed for scoring free kicks and playing as a sweeper-keeper WITH his curly perm, bushy moustache and penchant for the unpredictable, Colombian goalkeeper Rene ...

The childhood "acquaintance" of Pablo Escobar has lived a life less ordinary, one defined by hugely consequential moments of madness. Rene Higuita has been known as 'El Loco' for more than 30 years.

It was the kind of mistake those of us who play football make; those of us who love the ball, those who want to keep the ball inside the pitch and not just hit it out. Rene Higuita, in World in Motion ...

SCORPION kick goalkeeper Rene Higuita underwent plastic surgery on LIVE TV after he was voted Colombia’s ugliest icon. Higuita, 55, built a reputation for his sweeper-keeper style of play, bringing ...

Today marks the 26-year anniversary of René Higuita's legendary scorpion kick. It's September 1995, and England and Colombia play out a goalless draw at the old Wembley as Terry Venables' side prepare ...

Rene Higuita is of a different breed. The 51-year-old former professional goalkeeper, who hasn't changed his 1980s hairstyle, does marches to the beat of his own drum off the pitch, which in the past ...

Rene Higuita became an example of how Colombia's drugs war invaded people's lives. Simon Kuper selects him to keep goal for our Political Football XI. Rene Higuita might be a legend from a bygone age, ...

The global campaign to contain the spread of the coronavirus has gained support from an unexpected but welcome quarter: former Colombia goalkeeper Rene Higuita. On Saturday, a photo of one of the ...

WITH his curly perm, bushy moustache and penchant for the unpredictable, Colombian goalkeeper Rene Higuita was a face in football in the 90s. Nicknamed ‘EL Loco’ (The Madman), Higuita, now 51, enjoyed ...

SCORPION kick goalkeeper Rene Higuita underwent plastic surgery on LIVE TV after he was voted Colombia’s ugliest icon. Higuita, 55, built a reputation for his sweeper-keeper style of play, bringing ...