Felipe Cardenas
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490 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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I was a 16-year-old during that World Cup.
I was so impressionable still.
And it didn't seem real that the World Cup was coming to the United States.
I can tell you that as someone who grew up in the States and grew up playing soccer and a sport that was way down the totem pole, to have the World Cup, which for me,
and our family was such a massive tournament in the United States was surreal.
And Colombia was a favorite, which is also surreal.
That should not happen.
If you're a Colombian, they will admit that we are never favorites.
But that team was so good.
They had not lost in over 27 matches.
Um, you know, I spent my, my, the entire year 93 94 in Columbia with family going to school, playing football and witnessing that team beat everybody.
I was in Columbia when they beat Argentina five nil and Buenos Aires.
Then they played AC Milan, Palmeiras, Parma, like you name it.
They've just played anyone on a world tour and beat them.
And so they arrive at the world cup as considered favorites.
And it ends horribly.
It starts horribly in the game with Romania, where Romania were just miles ahead and they win 3-1.
And it just felt like that game, it felt like they were out of the World Cup.
And obviously from there, you start to learn later all of the darkness that was around that team, the threats, the cartel threats for individual players, the
The fact that, you know, I remember speaking to Oscar Cordoba, who was the goalkeeper for Colombia, him telling me that they didn't even prepare for their opponents.
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