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#1G🇨🇴 ColombiaSigned
José
HIGUITA
#1G🇨🇴 ColombiaSigned- Born
- 1966
- Age
- 59
- From
- Medellín, Colombia
- Debut
- 1985
- Previously
- Aucas
El Loco. The keeper who pulled off the Scorpion Kick at Wembley and reinvented what a goalkeeper could be — sweeper, dribbler, free-kick taker, set-piece menace. Won the 1989 Copa Libertadores with Atlético Nacional and scored 40 goals across his career, most of them as the man whose job was to stop them.
Apps
Goals
Trophies
MVP
International
68
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3
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Club career
380
40
3
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Trophy cabinet
Honors
- Copa Libertadores1989
- Copa Interamericana1989
- Categoría Primera A1991, 1994
Club career
Timeline
- 1985Millonarios
- 1986–1991Atlético Nacional
- 1991–1992Real Valladolid
- 1993–1997Atlético Nacional
- 1997–1998Veracruz
- 1999–2000Independiente Medellín
- 2004Aucas
Did you know
Three things to drop into conversation
- 01Pulled off the original Scorpion Kick against England at Wembley in 1995 — the move has carried his name ever since.
- 02IFFHS ranks him among the ten greatest South American goalkeepers in history.
- 03Reportedly invented the scorpion kick after watching a child mess around with the move on a beach during a film shoot.