René Higuita (nicknamed "El Loco") has been a Colombian's goalkeeper in 1987, and now is the goalkeepers's coach in Real Valladolid. He is famed for taking unnecessary risks in a match and score three goals in his profesional career. He invented the scorpion save, which the keeper jumps forward, arches his legs over his head and the ball doesn't entry in the goal, in September, 1995, on a mattch that his team played versus England.
Now, you can see the moment that this peculiar goalkeeper made the famous scorpion save:
In 2004, he tested positive for cocaine after an examination realized after a match, that he played versus Olmedo, so the Ecuadorian Federation of Football suspended him for six months.
"El Loco" had participated in a various realities TV programs, for example in Cambio Extremo, where he has changed his apparence.
Now, we know more about other goalkeeper, who invented the scorpion save and made spectaculars moves outside the area of the goal
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