**The Global Circus of Tino Asprilla: When a Colombian Striker Became the World’s Most Entertaining Disaster** In the grand theater of international football, where nations invest their hopes and hooligans invest their fists, few performers have commanded the stage quite like Faustino Hernán “Tino” Asprilla. While diplomats negotiate trade deals and presidents tweet themselves into…
The Green Cathedral of the Andes, Now Streaming Worldwide Dave’s Locker – International Desk Medellín—If you crane your neck high enough above the jacaranda trees and concrete scars of Colombia’s second city, you’ll spot the twin spires of Estadio Atanasio Girardot. Locals call it “la Catedral Verde,” which sounds charming until you remember that the…
Scorpion in a Suitcase: How René Higuita Accidentally Became the World’s Most Dangerous Tourist By the time the Berlin Wall had been reduced to souvenir fragments, René Higuita was busy turning the penalty area into a geopolitical playground. The Colombian goalkeeper—part acrobat, part liability insurer’s nightmare—never bothered to wait for history’s permission slip. Instead, he…
