Freddy Rincón: Former Colombia captain expires after car accident

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14th Apr, 2022. 09:14 pm
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Former Colombia soccer captain Freddy Rincón has died after being concerned in a car crash in Cali, the hospital treating him said in a declaration.

The 55-year-old Rincón become admitted to sanatorium on Monday following a vehicle twist of fate within the early hours of the day, CNN en Español pronounced, bringing up neighborhood media.
Five humans had been injured inside the twist of fate, which concerned a van with 4 occupants, together with the previous player, and a bus, the Undersecretary of Mobility of Cali, Edwing Candelo, advised the newspaper, El País Cali.

Cali’s The Imbanaco Clinic stated “regardless of all of the efforts made by using our scientific and help team, the patient Freddy Eusebio Rincón Valencia, has died these days April thirteen, 2022.”

“There will never be a way to express what this really means for us, we invite the entire country to remember him with happiness for everything that he brought into life with his sporting successes,” the hospital reported.

A ‘painful loss’

Rincón played in three World Cups — 1990, 1994 and 1998 — and scored 17 goals in eighty four games for Colombia.

The Colombian Football Federation paid tribute, announcing in a statement: “This is a huge loss for his own family and friends, and on the same time is a regrettable loss for our recreation, in which we will omit him and take into account him with exceptional care, appreciation, recognize and admiration.”
“We ship power, guide and our condolences to his own family, hoping that they could aid this sad and painful loss,” the statement introduced.
Real Madrid, who Rincón performed for between 1995 and 1996, additionally paid tribute to him, expressing “condolences and care and affection to all of his family, teammates and executives, his clubs and all his cherished ones.”
Born in 1966 in Buenaventura, in western Colombia, he became one of the key gamers of his usa’s golden generation within the Nineteen Nineties.