Valderrama

From lush, curly blond hair , white skin of Caribbean and few words. The Carlos Valderrama , best Colombian footballer of all time , still in love with the ball and with little desire to take her back 10 .The Kid (el pibe), as he just knows football  enrolled his name and style of play in the most brilliant period of the coffee football. The nineties will remember him as one captain with a slow and safe pace was able to circumvent the tactic with the precision of magic. "El Flaco" Menotti , a coffee chat and cigarette described Valderrama, one of his favorite in the field as " a magician of intelligence ,

who knows the location of peers and almost without looking at them in a shot as with the hand. "Francisco Pacho Maturana, who directed him in the World Cup in Italy 90 and U.S. 94, and briefly at Real Valladolid of Spain , in 1991 , remembers him as " the brain of the Colombian national team ." " Just have him on the field and Colombia won 1-0 in mood and felt that rival in the field ," said Fred. Not surprisingly, Valderrama was considered the best player in America in 1987 and 1993 , and his performances in Italia 90 , USA 94 and France 98, his last World Cup and under the tutelage of Hernán Darío Bun Gomez always appeared in the gallery of the stars." For a footballer World is the ultimate , it's like the 15th birthday party for a lady or a professional degree to That's the World for me . A celebration of the best players and teams in the world ," Valderrama said in a interview. But the story of Kid, that he began writing in the hot dusty tennis Pescaíto his home neighborhood in Santa Marta ( Caribbean coast ) , also has interesting chapters and other successful very discreet in the ten clubs he has played : Five from Colombia , one from France , one from Spain and three from the United States. Local Union Magdalena , where he took his first steps as a professional , Millonarios Bogota Deportivo Cali , where he rose to stardom in the eighties , Independiente Medellín and Junior of Barranquilla, with whom he won national titles in 1993 and 1995 , enjoyed light Valderrama.So did the Montpellier of France between 1988 and 1991, where he had chosen , among others, by the world champion Laurent Blanc and the legendary Roger Milla. But the stone in the shoe was Real Valladolid, where alongside their compatriots René Higuita and Leonel Alvarez suffered the bitterness of rejection of a football and did not open the doors.It was in the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer (MLS ) in the United States where he outlined his finishing touches , which also drew when he defended the colors of the Miami Fusion and Tampa Bay Mutiny , his first club in the American League ." I was taken to help bring football to the United States and I think I've met ," he told his arrival in Colombia . But Valderrama will not surrender : "I would be the Colombian national team coach road ahead There's a lot there to learn, but to know directions patience .