In the early 1990s, Colombian football national team was one of the strongest in the world, thanks to the coach, Francisco Marturana, and his team, the Generaciòn Dorada. Their development, however, benefited of the money invested by Pablo Escobar, the Cocaine King, one of the most famous criminal in the world. The link between drug cartels and football allowed Colombia to almost reach the top of international football, but also left a bloody footprint, with the murder of Andrès Escobar