Diego Leon Osorio, a former football player who represented Colombia in the 1990s, has been detained three times for drug trafficking, according to the police on Friday.
On April 8, the ex-left-back tried to fly to Madrid, Spain from a nearby airport “with 1,849 grams of cocaine hydrochloride,” according to a press release from the police.
Before making the arrest, airport officers found the cocaine in four pairs of footwear.
However, authorities did not make the arrest public until Friday, when a video of Osorio in handcuffs next to a uniformed officer was released to the media. Osorio won league titles with Colombian team Atletico Nacional.
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The 52-year-old was previously arrested in 2002 while transporting cocaine in Miami but was released on bail.
In 2016, he was arrested again in Medellin and later sentenced to house arrest.
Osorio played for Colombia’s national team in the 1990s alongside the legendary Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama and goalkeeper Rene Higuita.
At club level, he excelled at Atletico Nacional, winning two Colombian leagues and the Merconorte Cup in 1998.
Soccer and drugs have been intertwined for the past four decades in Colombia, the world’s leading producer of the white powder, with several players arrested for links to trafficking.
Anthony de Avila, Colombian club America de Cali’s all-time leading scorer, was detained in September 2021 for links to the mafia in Naples, Italy.
Another Colombian international Jhon Viafara, a midfielder in the Once Caldas team that won the Copa Libertadores in 2004, was extradited to the United States for collaborating in a drug shipment to that country.
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