Faustino Asprilla

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Faustino Asprilla
Personnel
Surname Faustino Hernán Asprilla Hinestroza
birthday November 10, 1969
place of birth Tuluá ,  Colombia
size 176 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1989 Cúcuta Deportivo 36 (17)
1989-1992 Atlético Nacional 78 (35)
1992-1996 AC Parma 84 (25)
1996-1998 Newcastle United 48 0(9)
1998-1999 AC Parma 22 0(1)
1999-2000 Palmeiras São Paulo 12 0(2)
2000-2001 Fluminense FC 12 0(8)
2001-2002 CF Atlante 12 0(3)
2002-2003 Atlético Nacional 11 0(3)
2003 CF Universidad de Chile 13 0(5)
2003-2004 Estudiantes de la Plata 2 0(0)
2004 Cúcuta Deportivo 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-2001 Colombia 57 (20)
1 Only league games are given.

Faustino Hernán Asprilla Hinestroza (born November 10, 1969 in Tuluá ) is a former Colombian football player . The striker is now considered one of the best and most successful footballers in his country and is called the octopus by his fans because of his great appetite . In the course of his active career, as well as afterwards, the eccentric and gun fanatic was noticed by all sorts of scandals.

Career

In 1988 Asprilla started with the local first division club Cúcuta Deportivo , where he scored 17 goals in his first season. This was followed by the move to Atlético Nacional in 1989. Here he made a name for himself in Europe with an outstanding rate (35 goals in 78 games). So in 1992 he followed the call across the Atlantic and switched to Parma , with drug boss Pablo Escobar also supposedly recording of the 6.5 million rumored and converted into German marks . After initial skepticism about the Colombian offensive player, he defeated AC Milan , which had not been defeated for 58 games, in his first season with a much-acclaimed free kick , in which players like Frank Rijkaard , Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten were playing at the time.

With AC Parma , Asprilla brought the UEFA Cup to Italy in 1995 , during which he scored four goals, but could not be used in the final because he was injured after a dispute following a car accident in his Colombian homeland. During his time in Parma, he also attracted attention elsewhere; He is said to have fired two revolvers and an assault rifle in the air in his Colombian homeland on New Year's morning 1995, where he then narrowly escaped imprisonment, but was punished with a fine and a one-year suspended sentence. Only months later, he is said to have threatened a shopkeeper in Colombia with death because he was said to have stolen a hat from him. But as early as 1994 the media reported that Asprilla had shot one of his horses, which angered him, “Hey, I love guns! But I'm not going to shoot my own horse. "

Two years earlier he had already won the European Cup Winners' Cup and was now able to boast two important European titles. Just six months after winning the UEFA Cup, he moved to England , where he joined Newcastle United . The Colombian also made a faux pas here when, two days after his official change, he was sitting at lunch in the club's hotel with coach Kevin Keegan and ordering a wine with dinner, before Keegan got the information after dinner that he would buy it for the upcoming one Match against Middlesborough FC on the same day. With the Magpies , Asprilla was never really happy, which was based on mutuality, whereupon Keegan's successor Kenny Dalglish released Asprilla after various escapades. He then moved back to Parma, where he changed for a transfer fee of seven million that was rumored and converted into German marks. Asprilla became known not only for his gray fur coat, which he wore when he was welcomed to England, but above all for a hat trick in Newcastle's 3-2 win over FC Barcelona on September 17, 1997 in St. James' Park.

This was followed by the second victory in the UEFA Cup in 1999 and the victory of the Italian Cup in the same year. That was his last title in Europe and Tino moved to SE Palmeiras in Brazil . After a few unsuccessful positions in Rio de Janeiro and Mexico , he returned to Atlético Nacional in 2002. However, he only spent a year in his home country and then moved to CF Universidad de Chile . After five goals in 13 games and another scandal, when he showed up with a loaded gun at team training and threatened his teammates and the press present with death there for "fun", he left Chile again and finally left his career with Estudiantes de La Plata in Argentina to end.

Even after the official end of his career as an active player, Asprilla, who opened an insurance office after his football career, attracted attention several times. Most recently in 2015 when a Colombian drug cartel threatened him and his family with death and he fled his hometown before the masterminds were caught. After the former Colombian international had become a little quieter, apart from various charges, mainly due to the illicit use of firearms, a Latin American porn company offered him a job in 2013. In 2014 he presented his own condom brand called "Tino", which is also his nickname.

National team

With his national team , Asprilla took part in the 1994 World Cup in the USA . There he played in three games, but could not score a single goal, although he was previously much acclaimed and was declared, among others, by Michel Platini as "Number 1 in the world". His team was eliminated in the group stage. Three years later, in qualifying for the 1998 World Cup , he fought a special duel with Paraguayan José Luis Chilavert : The goalkeeper and Asprilla clashed and the encounter ended in a fight between the two. Asprilla was the first Colombian to be expelled from the field for such an offense. At the tournament itself, Tino only made one game and was unable to avert the elimination of his country again in the group stage, although he was thrown out of the squad prematurely.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PENALTY II , accessed on February 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Asprilla, Faustino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asprilla Hinestroza, Faustino Hernán (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuluá , Colombia