WEBVTT - That's a Keeper! 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:09.440 The goalkeeper is a lonesome creature. Alone in his box. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.080 He hangs out with his gloves and his crossbar. You 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:17.720 only notice him when he messes up and concedes. He's 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:22.040 got a lot of time to think. The French philosopher 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.479 Albert Camu was a goalkeeper. He said, quote, all that 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.479 I know most surely about morality and duty I owe 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:36.960 to football. Vladimir Nabokov called his fellow goalkeepers aloof solitary, impassive. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.400 Aside from antisocial writers who would want this thankless job. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:51.360 Today we're going to look at a lineage of local 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.160 Latin American goalkeepers who transformed the role and whose wild, 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.240 unhinged antics terrified and delighted their own fans along the way. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.640 I'm namedo Vila, and you're listening to the best soccer 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:14.680 podcast in the world. It's got ses with them, but 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:26.240 it's still Christiano Ronaldo. Yes, yes, in the Italian teams 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:44.920 wonderful that is never sin. In nineteen twelve, the Football 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.320 Association limited goalkeepers to using their hands inside of their 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.680 own boxes, rather than anywhere in their own halves. Hungarian 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.480 Goula Grossage was among the first to come off his 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.560 line consistently. He won a gold medal with Hungary at 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.000 the nineteen fifty two Summer Epics. A postle socco of 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.400 lev Yashin and Mariel Garriso built on the idea of 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.400 the sweeper keeper. Leve Yashin saved over a hundred penalties 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.519 and had a cigarette and a shot before the game 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.880 to get in the right mindset. Legendary Argentina everywhere played stopper. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.519 Gariso was the first to wear gloves. The goalkeeper's role 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.240 back then was purely just stop the boy if it 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.520 came to him and get it back up the pitch. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.080 If you see clips of these old games from the fifties, 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.520 from the sixties, moist keepers that they were linely limbed 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.240 themselves to grabbing hold of the ball with two hands, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.280 just taking their time and then launching it back up 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.720 the pitch, not really caring who it landed with. And 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.480 Carrisso was different. He was a guy who did leave 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.639 his line. He would, you know, as the position suggests, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.760 sweep up behind the defense if if it was needed, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.919 he could play with his fate. This is Daniel Edwards, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.160 a soccer journalist based in Buenos Aires. Gariso said a 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.280 record for appearances for Riad, played on the famed Lamkina 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.400 team and won six domestic titles with his club. He 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.639 was the first goalie to trick a striker by faking 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.960 an offside call. His birthday became the Day of the Goalkeeper. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.120 In Argentina. His audacity of dribbling out past opposing players 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.920 caught on, including with a young Colombian named or As 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.160 the coach who discovered and champion the Heat that would 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:27.440 call him a local Heat that was born in a 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.360 slum in Median and grew up playing under the floodlights 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.600 paid for by Pablo Escobar. He played as a striker 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.040 throughout his youth until one day, when the team's goalkeeper 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.400 was unavailable, the coach gave eat other gloves. He was 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.280 just seemed a reluctant goalkeeper, right. He was a guy 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.640 that was so comfortable getting out of his goal and 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.520 dribbling out the pitch. And he was a great keeper 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.160 and his I'm right, but you must just just seemed 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.280 to be bored of the row. So he would he 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.360 would just try this out, righteous stuff, and there's a 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.680 free kick at Akta to get across very very quickly. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.200 And day he scored seven goals in his debut season, 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:10.600 which earned him a transfer. Fueled by cocaine money, Nasional flourished, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:17.120 eventually winning the the final went to penalties. He has 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.440 stopped four and scored his own as Nacionale became the 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:24.479 first Colombian team to win South America's biggest club competition. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.120 But that team, you know, that Li Nacional team has 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.120 just gone into history is one of the greatest South 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.800 American club teams that ever was his antics between the 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.520 post it definitely announced him as as someone to watch 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.560 and side. This guy Francisco Maturan of the culture that 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.479 age he comes in around nine nine. He says, look, 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.920 we're not going to beat Argentina Brazil by fouling them, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.280 by spoiling. You know, we're Colombians. We love, we love 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.080 to have fun. We love to just show you our 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.760 three sells. So we're going to do that on the pitch. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:03.080 We we're talking about it is an orthodox style. I 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:07.719 don't think I've ever seen anything as pure confidential. I mean, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.640 of course, Sita with all of his antics, all of 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.040 his all of his free spirit in the girl, that's 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.200 where it all started, and it just filtered through the 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.120 entire team from there. In his international debut, kept a 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.440 clean sheet against the Soviet Union for a hundred and 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.880 twenty minutes, saving two penalties in scoring the decisive spot kick. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.960 Just a very colorful figure on and off the pitch 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.400 and definitely one of these guys who in the nineties, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.400 which was you know, especially early nineties are fairly bleak 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.640 time for football, where a lot of teams weren't really 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.520 proposing anything. The game was dubbed by violence, dubbed by 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.880 very negative play. It must be the best play on 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.720 the fiber show tram. And then you have a team 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.920 like Columbia who just came up in the World Cup, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.159 and it was like, well, you can play a bit different, 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.360 you can play with a bit of joy in your heart. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.960 This is really good to see. At the time, columb 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:09.400 Ba was thrilling with m bossing games from under his 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.680 bouncing blonde fro. Columbia made it to the knockout rounds 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.400 of the World Cup, beating the UAE and drawing with 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:25.159 Germany coach. The team was built on Aita's peculiar style 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.240 of play. He was and still is kind of kind 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.479 of an idol and an icon and representative of not 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.840 just you know, Colombia and Colombian soccer, but of a 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.839 of a time and an era, you know, in in 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.280 a different way. I know, we put them, you know, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.480 like Carlos Falderrama in in a very different way than 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.920 Colos walder Rama, but equally as impactful and impressionable, if 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.200 you will. This is Alexei Lawless, a defender for the U. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.400 S national team in the nineties and now a puned 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.000 it for Fox Soccer. As coach Francisco put it quote, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.360 with Renee acting as a sweeper, we effectively have eleven 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.600 outfield players allowed the whole team to push higher up 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.359 the field. In Totalita conceded just fifty four goals in 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.600 sixty eight games for Columbia, less than one per game. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:17.840 Was very popular because of his tendency to go out 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:23.000 of his penalty orange dribble rounds four of five or six. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:28.040 But then the World Cup he famously lost the motto 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:34.920 or in the last sixteen against Cameroon in extra time, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:41.360 and that's why Columbia went out so spanished. Eventually. This 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.800 is Michael Jakin, a freelance soccer journalist. So Cameroon in 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:52.680 the round of sixteen. Let's talk about it, Yeah, it was. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.640 It was pretty much deadlocked. Like a lot of the 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.239 games at the ninety nine World Cup was a gat 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.280 receives the boat and just besides, as he had done 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.320 for so many times, to dribble it out and see 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.280 what I can do. And he came up against against 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.720 Cameroon and lost the boll and gifted the go to 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.120 Roger millib and that was it for Columbia. They couldn't 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.800 get back. And one of the most enjoyable teams are 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.680 that World Cup when in the Colombian doll is a 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.320 keeper who lives on a knife inch. He's an exhibitionist, 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:30.120 a great taker of risks. Millers possessed him the get 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:36.040 and read face Miller another dog and another dogs. Miller's 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.360 danced with the corner flag became famous. Heat that called 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.880 his turnover quote a mistake as big as a house comb. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.560 That was an outstanding team. That was a team that 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.680 could have won the World Cup in ninety four and 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.200 maybe and he was the Gita being a bit of 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.600 a fool against Cameroon which cost him both goals. This 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.960 is a senior writer for ESPN. You know your eye 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.560 probably could have scored one of those two goals when 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.400 you get when you get gifted them, you know the 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.520 way he did, and he was totally out of position 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.680 for the other goal as well, which people often forget. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.319 So yeah, I don't. I don't see Gita as this 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:17.000 positive romantic figure. Neither did Colombia. Four years later, he 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.200 that wasn't at the nineteen ninety four woke up because 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.320 he done. He just got out of prison for reasons 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.599 that I think on the Gita would would really be 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.240 able to explain. He managed to get caught up in 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.480 kidnapping kis in Colombia. Pabloscoad had escaped his mountaintop prison 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.319 and was on the run. His bank accounts were frozen. 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.920 He needed money, so he went about it the old 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.120 fashioned way, kidnapping. He abducted the daughter of his former 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.840 partner turned rival Cats Molina. Molina asked to Eat that 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.880 to act as an intermediary to transfer the money. He 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.400 had some personal link, so he got involved in this 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.640 kidnapping chaise. This wasn't eat as brightest moment, but you 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.440 try turning down a drug kingpin when he per suddenly 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.800 asks for a favor. He that carried the three thousand 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.360 dollars in cash handed it over and idly signed autographs 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.480 for the street kids who recognized him. While he waited, 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.360 the girl was delivered to his side without him seeing 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.840 where she appeared from. The victim eventually got home. Cifely 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.680 A Gab allegedly received a very has some sum of 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.800 money for his involvement, and eventually the Columbian authorities caught 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.640 up with him and said, now you're complicit in this kidnapping. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.280 So I spent almost a year I think in prison, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.120 got out just before the World Cup. Obviously he had 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.679 n't plied for a year. He was in pretty terrible 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.599 shipes I. He was forced to watch from him and 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.679 Oscar Corba went in instead as heat that puts it. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.760 He went to jail because he tried to save a 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.160 teenage girl. He called his motives humanitarian. He was never 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:54.480 tried and was released after seven months. He sued the 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.480 ball at that prison when they tried to cut his hair. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.800 His lawyer argued that his hair was quote essential to 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.640 his personality, his performance, in his image, and he's got 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.160 lots of it. This is James Richardson hosted the Totally 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.760 Football Show. People knew who Renny Agreeto was because of 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.400 the hair He had this big kind of you won't 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.840 remember the hairbaar bunch. It was a short lived Hannah 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.880 Barbera cartoon about somewhere out there, someone's going, yeah, I 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.240 know the hair by bunch. Oh, I understand what he 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.960 means about. When they agreed his hair. It was that 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.480 kind of thing. For that person, you get it, But 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:25.720 for the rest of you, it was kind of like 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.880 a big, kind of like bubble perm kind of frieze. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.240 He paired his hair do with extravagant jerseys and huge 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.200 puffed up sleeves. Colorful, I guess would be the best 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.280 way to describe a flamboyant electric colors on his shirt, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:46.520 flying hair down to his down to his shoulders, the mustache. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.960 He was only five nine, which is really short for 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.680 a goalie. He was also a larger than life character, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:59.200 and he inhabited that character with you know, just incredible, beautiful, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.040 arrogant in the way that he went about it. With 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:07.719 the Eta regaining fitness at home, Columbia imploded in tried 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:14.839 to down there for you. That's course, Papa, I'm the 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:21.640 own goal. I'm the United States reached Columbia scored an 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.520 owned goal, and was later murdered back in Midian a 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.360 tragic story for another episode. At the time, Columbia was 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.720 mired deep in cartel violence. If you know of theta, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.720 it's for something he did. After that, he gave the 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:46.680 world a different view of Columbia. Wembley Stadium, England versus Columbia. 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.360 Have you ever seen anything black in your life from 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:57.240 a cokeeper? But it was terrible, terrible friendly. Remember well, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.800 I really really touched stuff night. Neither of the teams 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.440 we're really looking for a goal. And it kind of 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.120 goes back to what I was saying before about heat 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.320 just all my seeming board of football bord of being 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.920 a goalkeeper at times. So he decided to make the 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.760 game noteworthy on his on It was a misplaced cross 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.400 come shop from Jamie red Nap just flighted into his direction. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.960 He that could easily have catched it, but he decided 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.520 to show the world his scorpion kick. It was incredible. Basically, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.000 he jumped forward into a handstand and kicked the ball 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.880 with his heels while upside down. The world had never 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:39.800 seen anything like it, which spawns millions of copycats. Everyone 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.000 wanted to do the scorpion kick on the playground. I 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.080 think even a friend of mine managed to dislocate his 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.319 shoulder because he tried it. So I think there was 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.200 probably a lot of emergency rooms in England at that 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.160 time for kids and pediatricians that weren't very happy with 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:58.760 the guitar. He says it quote put Columbia on the map. Definitely. 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.559 He gave a lot of people well to talk about 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.120 after that Scorpion kid because Columbia hadn't had a good 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.000 World Cup the year before, so that was really the 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.000 narrative behind Columbia. Then the Gate comes along and and 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.240 just changes the story. You know, He's it's the country 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.200 that invented the schoolping kick. It's one of the most 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.960 iconic soccer highlights of all time. Your grandma has seen it. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.760 That lived off the fame of the scorpion kick for 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.360 the rest of his career. He recreated it in an 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.320 ad for Frutino, a drink sort of like kool Aid. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.240 Most of his fifty one career goals came towards the 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.720 end of his playing days, when he signed for lower 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.960 league clubs, largely as a publicity stunt. In two thousand four, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.160 he tested positive for cocaine, entered rehab, and didn't play 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.680 again for three years. In that time, he had plastic 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.240 surgery on a reality TV show They Tell Lies, his 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.960 nose job, his chin implant, skin Peel Island trim, and liposuction. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.200 He had been voted Columbia's ugliest icon. He said quote, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.360 I'm tired of being ugly, Rena. I want to be handsome. Really. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.440 Afterward he announced that body wise he was perfect. He 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.400 played off and on until he was forty four, retiring 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.680 in two thousand and ten from a second division team 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:15.960 in Colombian coffee Country. But let's get back to World 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.440 Cup for a moment. It was the lowest scoring a 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.040 World Cup in history and something had to be done, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.800 so FIFA came up with a new law to help 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.000 keep the game moving, the back pass rule. It was 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.960 a way just to spade up the game. FIFA knew 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.000 that football wasn't a bit of trouble and the back 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.160 pass was a huge part of that because you could 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.080 waste minutes and minutes on end by giving the ball, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.320 you know, back to the keeper. It was just a 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:49.760 very very ugly, unpleasant tactic that calls the back pass rule. 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.520 I does law. After the rule change, goalkeepers now are 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:58.320 expected to do things that Iata pioneered the goalkeepers heads 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.080 to play better with our feet, and their role changed 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:07.000 and they became more involved in building the play from behind. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:19.520 More about what happened next after the break with the 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.240 Ether absent for World Cup ninety four, the first World 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.960 Cup after the back pass rule was implemented, the role 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:30.120 of fluorescent flamboyant goalkeeper felt at the diminutive Mexican campus. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.720 And to just say, this guy campus come out with 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:38.120 this technical color goalkeeper shirt and just looking so supremely 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.360 confident because he always seemed to have this look on 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.560 this west side. Yeah, I know what I'm doing. The 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.720 whole tel is just gonna follow me and it's uh 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:52.640 and it's going to be fine. We obviously just thought 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.080 it was hilarious that this guy was coming out in 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.960 a pink and yellow show drawn in a group with 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.960 boring Ireland and Italy. Mexican go was a breath of 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.880 fresh air, and that minty fresh breath came in the 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.680 form of their goalkeeper, Jorge Campos, sparkled as Mexico beat 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:17.760 Ireland and drew with eventual finalists Italy. You know, in 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.480 the knockout rounds, Mexico came up against Bulgaria, each team 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.520 had a player sent off. In one of the wildest 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.000 games of the tournament, it went to penalties. Campos saved 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.480 the first, but his teammates managed to miss three in 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:34.320 a row and Mexico crashed house shame put by compos 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.800 FIFA listed him as the world's third best goalkeeper before 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.200 that World Cup. Two years later, Nike featured him in 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.280 their epic Good Versus Evil ad along with all of 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.480 the best players in the world, Eric Cantada, Luis Figo, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.680 Ronaldo and Paolo Maldi. He was one of my favorite 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.840 goalkeepers because he was very very short. I mean he 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.720 was the shortest player of the Mexican team and his 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:05.359 magnificent colorful outfits, and he also loved to dribble. Looks 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.200 like a guita. But he was shorter than low Miss. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.600 You know that. It's incredible. Campus is listed at five 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.960 ft six, though he disputes that he used to stand 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.680 on top of a soccer ball in the back row 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.640 of team photos just to appear taller. So just how 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.840 tall was he? I mean he would maybe come up 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.359 to my nipple. Alexei Lalas played against him many times 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.280 over the years, probably and then maybe a little a 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.000 little taller with um the hair because at that point, 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:32.880 you know, back then he was really poofing it out 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.960 and you know, having it high. So yeah, he got 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:36.960 a couple of extra inches with the hair there. So 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.640 not diminutive, I would say, but but certainly not imposing 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.359 in terms of his actual height, personality and color and 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.199 all that. Now that's a whole another story. Campos was 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:52.320 a surfer, horseback rider, and sometimes goalkeeper from a beach 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.360 resort town on the Pacific coast of Mexico, where Campos 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.960 grew up on a ranch and spent every weekend in 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.800 the waves. He was say a special character as well. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:06.280 You know, he came from Acapulco. Soften is the most 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.000 popular spot, and he was brilliant sofa. The sand taught 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.600 me endurance and reflexes, he said. Surfing taught me balance 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.840 and elasticity. It also taught him fearlessness. He said that 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.359 there was more pressure surfing than in soccer. When you 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.479 go surfing, you do have to watch out for sharks, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.920 after all, like Ghita. All throughout his youth career, compos 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.320 played as a forward. In fact, in his debut season 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.200 in Mexico with Booms. He found his progress to the 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.639 first team blocked by an established veteran keeper, so Compos 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.840 asked to play as a striker, and he managed to 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:46.359 score fourteen goals, a team high by He was the 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.840 starting goalkeeper for both Bomas and Mexico. He won the 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:57.760 Mexican League that year. He spent the majority of his 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.720 career in goal, but certainly not all of it. He 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.560 famously played both goalkeeper and striker in some games. The 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.080 first was for Atlante, his next club. His team was 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.959 trailing to Cruizassul, so the coach subbed on the backup 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.320 goalkeeper and moved Compos into the attack. He scored the 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:19.440 equalizer his best goal, dustier kick, after launching himself through 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:25.560 the air. Throughout his career, Compos alternated between wearing the 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.560 number one and the number nine. One in goal, he'd 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.680 wear an outfield jersey underneath his goldie shirt just in case. 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.160 Now let's talk about those jerseys. If you know of Compos, 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.280 it's because of the uniform. Compos designed them himself, many 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.480 and homage to surfer gear in his hometown. They were 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.960 Neon da Gelos, psychedelic colored things with a three quarter 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:50.159 sleeve and huge armholes. You're aesthetic and the way that 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.760 you looked, and for lack of a better word, your 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.880 costume that you wore was important. And he certainly recognized 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.399 that he was playing a part, and therefore the costume 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.800 that he put on was as important as actually, you know, 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:05.960 the lines that he that he gave and the and 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.880 the performance that he gave. This wasn't just something that 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:11.000 he pulled off the top of his head. It was 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:15.200 comfortable for him, but it was strategic, and he understood entertainment. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.639 He understood performance, He understood the stage. He understood the 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.719 connection between the audience and the stage and that character 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.440 that you were playing, and he, you know, he went 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.720 about cultivating. Compos was so tied to this image that 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.920 it nearly cost him a spot in the World Cup. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:35.760 You see, Compos produced his own jerseys. When the Mexican 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.560 Federation made a deal with Umbro to supply their uniforms, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.520 Compos refused to wear them. After a standoff, they reached 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:46.160 a compromise. Compos kept designing and producing his own jerseys, 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.320 but he would sew the Umbro label on them. Off 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.960 the field, he wore sandals and shorts. He inhaled Haganda's 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:57.080 ice cream. Everything about him was unorthodox, especially his style 0:21:57.119 --> 0:21:59.960 of play. He would frequently dribble the ball deep into 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.680 the opposition half with fearless nonchalance. Sometimes he doesn't get 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.960 enough credit for, you know, really being ahead of his time, 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:11.320 fearless when it came to how he played. And I 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.679 think in today's game, where we put so much emphasis 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:16.879 on playing out of the back and the ability for 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.520 a goalkeeper to be good with their feet, some of 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.320 the stuff that defenders and goalkeepers do in today's game 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.080 we would never be caught dead doing. And yet Jorge 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.240 Kampos was doing that and more at a time when 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:31.359 it wasn't cool or de jure to to kind of 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:33.080 do it. So he was a man ahead of his time. 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.639 Compos seemed to revel in the risk he'd make a 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.840 save and launched straight up the field. World Cup winning 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.960 Argentine coach says he called him quote a prototype of 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:49.879 the twenty one century goalkeeper. Remember this is the nineties. 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.520 Goalkeepers are just now figuring out how to deal with 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.280 the ball without picking it up. But what people forget 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:58.480 is once a keeper picks up the ball, you know 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:01.600 he's either going to punt it and then comes or 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.720 he's going to roll it out to somebody. Compos chose 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.159 a third option. We know, it's soccer where it's very 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:09.520 difficult to score, and so more often than not it 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:12.399 ends up with, you know, being in the goalkeeper's hands. 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.359 But in that moment when everybody kind of turns around 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:18.760 and adjusts, the goalkeeper actually has the best view of 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:22.600 what is going on. Jorge compos would recognize and then 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.600 go about exploiting both the sheer numbers and the practical 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.320 overflow of numbers. In that half, it was starting a 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:33.679 counter attack. So it was it was feeding off of 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:37.480 a number of things, the confusion, the lapse in mentality 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:40.560 that normally happens uh, and then the novelty of it. 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:46.840 Compos won Gold Cups with Mexico. Alexei grimly recalls the 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:49.880 ninety three Gold Cup final when his USA team got 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.600 thrashed four nil. Particular loss in the Gold Cup final. 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:55.119 You know, I was young. I think that was my 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.480 first time playing in a steca and so just the 0:23:57.560 --> 0:23:59.480 awe of playing in a s teca and then we 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.119 got ours kicked. I mean that's a game where Horkae 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:04.359 just sat in the back, uh, And you know, smoked 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:06.760 a cigarette and drank a coffee, basically because we didn't 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:09.640 We certainly weren't doing anything to challenge him up there, 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:12.879 and we didn't see that, you know, that that marauding 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:15.480 type of ork because it wasn't necessary, and he was smart. 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.320 He recognized when it was necessary and when it when 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:24.960 it wasn't. In Major League Soccer made Compost its first 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:30.159 international signing. His face was everywhere TV, commercials, magazines, on 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:33.320 a mural in Hollywood and Vine. His signing bonus was 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:38.000 a new Ferrari. Compost would play doubleheaders Mexico then Galaxy 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.199