Higuita: we achieved something even Pele, Maradona and Messi haven’t

A confidant yet unsure approach
“We were 1-0 down [against Cameroon, a compare played in Naples on 23 Jun 1990] and we had to take risks. We were fresh too. If we’d mislaid 2-0, 3-0 or 4-0, there wouldn’t have been a problem. The problem came when [Bernardo] Redin done it 2-1. So a media went behind and said, ‘If Higuita hadn’t messed up, we’d have drawn.’ It wasn’t satisfactory that we came in for so most critique since there’s no past in football, usually a present. And that benefaction is 90 mins long.”

Do we consider people have ignored Milla’s partial in a goal?
Of course. You see it one approach from a outward and another approach from a inside. we remember Milla using towards me when [Luis Carlos] Perea played a round behind to me. It was roughly like a foul… as if to tainted me, and he came divided with a ball. He won a ball! So all credit to Milla, yet unfortunately for us it was a second goal. And Redin’s idea usually highlighted a mistake even more! But we didn’t make that many mistakes. That was my position and that was how we played and went about a football.

Today I’d be happy personification for a group like Barcelona, attack a round to a actor farthest away, personification one-twos, anticipating players in space, etc. It’s a form of football that’s building each day.

Where did a Higuita character come from?
It’s natural. At a time people pronounced we modelled my diversion on Hugo Gatti [the former Boca Juniors and Argentina keeper]. we remember going to a track as a small child and saying good keepers who, when they got to a round before a forwards did, would flog it out to a side. They were good keepers between a posts and we thought: ‘Can’t they play with their feet? If a ball’s not out, afterwards it’s in play and while it’s in play a team’s always got a possibility of scoring. So because are we going to give it to a opposition?’

So it all comes down to your mindfulness with a ball?
To me a round was a toy, a present they give we each Christmas and we don’t wish to let go of. And if we do let go of it, afterwards there’s a quarrel for it. we didn’t wish to quarrel for a ball; we wanted to have my ball. And we wanted my group to have that ball. That’s how we review a diversion and that’s how a manners changed.

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2018/m=4/news=higuita-achieved-pele-maradona-messi-havent.html