The Two Escobars

Jeff and Michael Zimbalist track Colombia's golden football generation through the parallel rises and falls of two unrelated Escobars — Pablo, the cartel boss whose drug money built the league, and Andrés, the defender whose own goal against the US sealed his country's elimination and led directly to his execution in a Medellín parking lot. The most damning thing the film does is refuse to treat the two stories as separate.

• Part of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series.
• Directed by brothers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist.
• Andrés Escobar was killed twelve days after his own goal.
• Released sixteen years after USA '94.
• Pablo Escobar heavily financed Colombian football clubs.

• When Pablo died, our football died with him.
• Andrés was the gentleman. Pablo funded our gentleman.
• An own goal in America. A bullet in Medellín.
• Football here was never just football.
• We had the most talented generation. We never found out.