Invalid email Something went wrong, please try again later. For the latest from the pitch sign up for our football newsletterSomething went wrong, please try again later. From missing games because of his cocaine 'hobby' to being a pal of Pablo Escobar, meet the man known as 'El Loco', the goalkeeping union's craziest member. Negotiating a hostage dealIn a bizarre twist, four years later Higuita found himself at the centre of a hostage crisis between Pablo Escobar and another narcotics kingpin. Desperate for money, in 1991, Pablo Escobar took the daughter of fellow kingpin Carlos Molina hostage and Higuita volunteered himself to negotiate her release.
