Genius and recklessness, he could become a champion. Between Emilian nights, extravagances and madness, “only” one champion remained. Which bewitched Parma. Faustino was the symbol of genuine football, made of talent, instinct and imperfection
This is the story of a cursed man happy with the curse that he has carried with him throughout his career. He never complained about it, he accepted it as something inevitable that happened to him because it was written in his character, engraved in his DNA. What he could have become without that curse on him, no one knows. Probably a champion. And instead he remained an excellent player, we would say a champion, but he never managed to climb the rankings and reach the limit of glory. Faustino Asprilla, a Colombian from Tulua Valle, was unfinished because, instead of fighting it, he supported his curse, he played with it, he didn’t perceive it as a danger, but as a banal accident to live with. Having landed in Italy in 1992, he immediately began to be talked about for the “exoticism” of his style, for the somersaults in which he performed every time he scored a goal and for the extravagances that accompanied his existence.