The languid style of the playmaker Juan Quintero has become all but extinct at the highest level of the modern game but is working well for Colombia in Russia
Now the guns are finally silenced after 53 years of conflict in Colombia, the Marxist Farc, formerly one of the most powerful and feared groups in the world, want to have a professional team
The general’s coup of 1973 brought terror and death, but for footballer Leonardo Véliz, a Communist sympathiser, salvation came from continuing to represent the national team
Carlos Bacca’s mother has admitted she would have clobbered Neymar with her high heel after the bad tempered Copa América tie in which both players were sent off
Chelsea’s Colombia winger was four when his father was killed but he was determined to be a footballer – despite the efforts of his exasperated grandmother
Carl Worswick: From ‘The Birdman’ to Hombres de Honor, boost your knowledge of Los Cafeteros, including the definitive guide to pronouncing James Rodríguez’s first name
A youth prodigy given his big break by a suspected associate of Pablo Escobar, James Rodríguez has taken Carlos Valderrama’s No10 shirt and may steal his crown as Colombia’s greatest ever player
Playing under Pinochet: how Chile’s stars of the 1970s feared for their lives