Transalpino Escobar FC - Sport Grey

In the 1980s and 1990s, Colombia was ravaged by an endless cycle of narco-violence that captured worldwide headlines. Yet, in the midst of this deadly scourge the game thrived and even enjoyed a golden era.

The unlikely catalyst for this phenomenon was the laundering of drug money that built soccer fields and paid top dollars for players and coaches.

At least 6 professional clubs were known to be linked with drug cartels and their sordid affairs of briberies, kidnappings, and killings.

Cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar ran the Medellin-based Atletico Nacional soccer team as an open secret, funneling his proceeds from the drug trade to acquire, develop and retain the best soccer talent he could find.

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