BOGOTA, Apr 15 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Former Colombia national team captain and Real Madrid midfielder, Freddy Rincon, died aged 55, after a car crash.
Rincon sustained serious head injuries when the vehicle he was driving, collided with a bus in the south-western Colombian city of Cali.
“Despite all the efforts of our teams, Freddy Eusebio Rincon Valencia passed away,” said Laureano Quintero, the medical director of the Imbanaco Clinic, where Rincon was admitted on Monday.
The Colombian Football Federation (FCF) said, it was mourning a “great loss” in a statement posted on its official website.
“We will miss him and remember him with great affection, appreciation, respect and admiration,” it said.
World football governing body, FIFA, took to social media to pay tribute to Rincon, whose career also included spells at Napoli, Palmeiras, Corinthians and Santos, among other clubs.
“We join together with many in the world of football to remember Freddy Rincon,” FIFA said, alongside a video of the playmaker scoring at the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
Rincon was capped 84 times for Colombia from 1990 to 2001, and played in the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups. He was also involved in a serious road accident in 2013, when he required surgery for multiple fractures, after the truck he was driving overturned on a wet road near Cali.– NNN-PRENSA LATINA
