Colombia goal machine Radamel Falcao’s World Cup dream is finally here.
The 32-year-old has played for some of the biggest clubs in world football, yet perhaps the most surprising thing about him is that 2018 will see him play in his first World Cup after missing Brazil 2014, where Colombia reached the quarter-finals, through a heartbreaking anterior cruciate knee ligament injury.
Falcao’s career depicts a man who has gone from hero to zero in a short space of time, but he now goes into Colombia’s first World Cup match against Japan in Saransk on Tuesday looking to remind the world of the qualities which first earned him his ‘El Tigre’ (The Tiger) nickname.