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Chapter 415 Organizational Goalkeeper
"Madman" Chilavert's free kick skills come from the guidance of Milutinovic, the magical coach of the former Southern Region. Under the guidance of Coach Milu, Chilavert has practiced excellent free kick skills. He has repeatedly used free kicks or penalty kicks to make great achievements. Similarly, Chilavert has the most goals in the goalkeeper position.

At the end of the 20th century, Paraguay's Chilavert, Mexico's "Butterfly" Campos, and Colombia's Hiquita were known as the three major players in the Americas at that time!
These three people have the same characteristic. They don't have the calm personality of a traditional goalkeeper. In the goalkeeper position, these three have very hot tempers!And it's very crazy!

Campos, known as the "Butterfly" because of his fondness for wearing colorful costumes, has a strong desire to attack and often dribbles into the opponent's half. He has scored many goals in his career and is also a good striker.

And these two have a very strong desire to attack, and there is another one who not only has a strong desire to attack!He also has a good organization and footwork!

He is Higuita among the three great goalkeepers in the Americas!

Rene Higuita, he is most remembered for his earth-shattering "scorpion tail wagging"!
In 1995, in the friendly match between Wembley and England, he staged the shocking "scorpion wagging tail" and kept Anderton's shot away. Great Moment". (You can still find video data about Iguita's scorpion wagging his tail on the Internet. Interested judges may wish to look for it.)
The 2009 Golden Foot Award awarded Hiquita the title of "Football Legend".

Many people know that Iguita is a goalkeeper with particularly strong defensive ability, but in fact, Iguita is not only good at goalkeeping, he is also very good at free kicks, and he is also very good at organizing midfield!

In the position of goalkeeper, the active Iguita does not feel that the goalkeeper can only be used to keep the goal. Therefore, the crazy Iguita often acts as a free man when the team is attacking, only to see him wave his hand : Go up one by one!Lao Tzu came to organize.

And because in Colombia, Higuita is notoriously lunatic and has a bad temper, and he is also the team's opponent, so his teammates did not dare to resist his approach.

Therefore, when attacking, Iguita's teammates, whether they are full-backs or central defenders, will press very forward, and in the backcourt, there is only one Iguita who holds the ball and organizes like a madman in the midfield Help teammates send long passes.

But I have to say that Higuita's long pass is really good. He can often find the running position of his teammates accurately. Unlike other goalkeepers, the long pass is basically the same as the clearance ball.

Although this style of play is wonderful, Higuita's frantic abandonment of the goal has brought a lot of defensive pressure to his teammates, especially when counterattacking, the opponent is basically facing an existence like an empty goal—— You know, the location of the Hikita organization is near the middle circle!

When the opponent is fighting back, they only need to release a lob shot. As long as the footwork is accurate enough, they can basically break through the gate of the Hiquita team.

Iguita's style of play has not been opposed by opponents, coaches, and fans. Every time the crazy Colombian fans see Iguita abandoning the goal, everyone will always shout very loudly, and they don't feel that Iguita His behavior is setting himself on fire.

Even, the head coach simply allowed Iguita to get more organizational power, and even gave some free kicks to Iguita in the midfield to take the penalty. The strength of support, of course, is also supported by Higuita's precise footwork, otherwise, the head coach can't be so stupid as to directly give the right to take the free kick to this lunatic goalkeeper.

At that time, there was no such concept as an organizational goalkeeper. It should be said that it has not yet developed. Therefore, Higuita can be regarded as creating a prototype of an organizational goalkeeper.

But that's just a prototype!
Because, from the perspective of Higuita's career, as an organizational goalkeeper, he is not very successful, which can be seen from Colombia's journey in the 1990 World Cup.

In the group stage of the 1990 World Cup, Colombia faced West Germany for the first time.

In terms of strength, the two teams are close to each other, but the West Germans are good at using tactics. At that time, the West German coach Beckenbauer and captain Matthaus were both courageous and resourceful. They watched carefully. The Colombian team's game video found a good way to defeat the enemy-Mateus and Beckenbauer developed a clever strategy to defeat the enemy based on the characteristics of Higuita's frequent abandonment.

And Higuita's crazy style of play eventually became the doom of the Colombian team.

After the start of the game, the West German team focused on defense and lured Higuita to run out of the penalty area, leaving the gate empty.Mateus took advantage of Iguita's chance of running around at the front of the penalty area, and suddenly hit a long-distance hanging goal. Iguita was unable to defend, and the ball flew towards the gate like a howitzer. Unfortunately, the ball missed and hit the lintel superior.

Generally speaking, with the first time as a lesson, there will definitely be changes in the future, but Iguita is not the kind of calm person. He is passionate and still ignores the safety of the gate, waiting for an opportunity to run out of the penalty area to assist.

Iguita's every attack can attract applause from the fans, but it makes the coaches and teammates fearful-everyone is very worried that when the empty goal left by Iguita will be attacked by the opponent.

The two sides fought fiercely, and the West German midfielder Litbarski took advantage of a Colombian defender's mistake and shot into the net.

However, Higuita didn't care about a goal from the opponent. He continued to wave his long arms to encourage his teammates to press the attack, and he also continued to organize the ball in the midfield. Finally, the golden lion king Valderrama used it extremely well. With his personal ability, Colombia scored a draw with West Germany.

If it is said that Higuita escaped by luck in this game, then the other match of the 1990 World Cup is definitely a nightmare for Higuita, a nightmare that Higuita will never forget in his life!
The group stage went very smoothly, Colombia was strong, and apart from West Germany, no team in the group could stop them from crushing.

After Colombia entered the round of [-], they faced the African lion Cameroon.

Although this traditional African team played well in the first game against Argentina, Higuita didn't take it seriously, and he ran out of the gate to help the attack as always.

(End of this chapter)