BOGOTA (Reuters) – Former Colombia captain Freddy Rincon has died after he sustained extreme head accidents in a car crash that occurred within the metropolis of Cali earlier this week, medical doctors mentioned late on Wednesday. He was 55.
Rincon was injured after the car he was driving collided with a bus on Monday.
“Despite all of the efforts of our groups, Freddy Eusebio Rincon Valencia has handed away,” Laureano Quintero, the medical director of the Imbanaco Clinic in Cali the place Rincon was being handled, informed reporters.
Rincon, 55, was a commanding midfielder who performed for Colombian sides Santa Fe and America.
He additionally had spells with Italian membership Napoli and Spain’s Real Madrid.
He captained Brazilian facet Corinthians to the primary membership world championship title in 2000 and was additionally a part of the ‘golden era’ of Colombian gamers who took the nationwide facet to 3 consecutive World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998.
He scored 17 objectives throughout his worldwide profession and was on the scoresheet in opposition to Argentina in a 5-0 World Cup qualifier victory in Buenos Aires in 1993.
(Reporting by Oliver Griffin and Nelson Bocanegra; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
