LONDON: Goalkeepers are the high-wire artists of global football, and it is the Latin Americans who give the position its full eccentricity.Last Sunday, two of them were in the headlines - one, alas, because he had been shot dead in the streets of Honduras, the other because he had spilled blood in the noble tradition of his trade, keeping the ball out of his net.
The murder of Milton (Chocolate) Flores probably has nothing to do with his form. He was in San Pedro Sula, on leave from his Honduran club Real Espana, when he was hit by a hail of bullets fired by unknown gunmen. It was the early hours of the morning. Flores had stopped to talk to a woman presumed by police to be a prostitute when 17 bullets tore into his car.
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