Asprilla: "A drug dealer asked me for permission to kill Chilavert"

ROME – "We need your authorization to kill Chilavert". These are the words that a drug dealer would have said to Faustino Asprilla after the former Parma striker and the Paraguayan goalkeeper had been protagonists of a disagreement in the 1998 World Cup qualifying match in France, played on 2 April 1997 and which won Paraguay 2-1. To tell it is the same former striker of Parma in the documentary broadcast by Telepacifico "Faustino the Great". Asprilla is Chilavert they were expelled by the referee in the 79th minute, causing the public to anger. Hence the crazy idea of ​​killing the extreme Paraguayan defender. The trafficker, known under the pseudonym of Julio Fierro he would reach him at the hotel to ask permission. "How are you? You're crazy, in football what happens on the pitch remains in the field", this is the answer with which the Colombian" liquidated "the drug dealer and saved the life of Chilavert.