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DRUGS,AND ESCOBAR COLOMBIAN FOOTBALL

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
1 December 2016

ADAM ELLIS recalls the story of Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar – and how it affected the country’s football

BEFORE the time of modern football when billionaire club owners were a distant speck on the sport’s mainstream, in the hazy jungles of Peru the land’s feral foundations lay bear a spring for hyperwealth. Riches so great they were unmanageable.
Coca leaves were more abundant in the western perimeter of the Amazonian rainforest than anywhere else in the world, but were yet to be harnessed by criminal elements on a pan-American scale.
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