Freddy Rincon, who was a midfielder for Real Madrid and Corinthians, is in a Colombian hospital with critical head damage after a car crash in the early hours of the morning. Freddy Rincon, a former Real Madrid midfielder, was rushed to hospital after a car collision on Monday morning in Colombia.
As per reports, Rincon’s car struck a bus. He was among four people wounded, including the bus driver. Rincon’s car clashed with an MIO bus just next to the Estadio Pascual Guerrero at 5 a.m. Monday, and travellers from both cars were rushed to a Cali hospital, where Rincon was placed in intensive care, his status outlined as critical. The dramatic accident between Rincon’s vehicle and the bus was caught on video and shared widely on the web. After the vehicle was struck side-on, it trundled out of control and finished up on a lane near the main road, both automobiles came to a screeching halt.
Rincon also featured for Napoli in Italy and Palmeiras and Santos in Brazil, in conjunction with Real Madrid and Corinthians. The goal he struck versus West Germany in Milan on June 19, 1990, at the World Cup, is his most substantive and remembered goal. In injury time, he sent the ball past the legs of the German goalie to give his team the draw they sought to prevent elimination from the tournament’s group stages.
After the tragedy in the city of Cali, south-west of the capital Bogota, the 55-year-old, who featured in three World Cups in the 1990s and netted 17 goals in 84 appearances for the Colombian national team, endured a life-saving operation.
Rincon entered Real Madrid in August 1995 at Jorge Valdano’s request, earning the club’s first Colombian player. Rincon merely made 21 appearances for Real Madrid throughout his two-year spell at the Santiago Bernabeu.
