After the tragic departure of the 'Colossus of Buenaventura' after the unexpected accident that took his life on Wednesday, April 13, memories and farewells charged towards Freddy Eusebio Rincón continue.
One of them was the photograph posted on the official Instagram of Rincón's ex-wife and mother of their son Sebastian. Adriana Lucumí posted a photo showing her next to the 'Colossus of Buenaventura' on her wedding day. The photograph is accompanied by the message “Rest in peace”.
The moving image filled social networks with nostalgia, which did not surpass the game of one of the best national and international football strikers of the nineties.
Adriana is the mother of Sebastian, one of Rincón's sons who decided to continue his football legacy. Lucumí is based abroad with her current partner.
But she is not the only one who has remembered the 'Colossus' through her networks, there are hundreds of Freddy's fans and friends who have flooded the different digital platforms with memories of the Colombian striker who shook the powerful German team in the 90's. For now, while football mourns Rincon, justice is advancing the process to clarify the accident that cost him his life.
Manuel Rincón, older brother of the 'Colossus', indicated that he expects an effective investigation by the authorities: “Now, after all this happens, it will be to find out what really happened because much is said and we hope that everything is clarified and we can rest assured.”
With a burial in Cali they gave the final farewell to the Colossus of Buenaventura
At about 5:50pm, the family, friends and followers of former football player Freddy Eusebio Rincón Valencia gave the final farewell to the figure of the Colombian national team in the 90s and idol of national football, who died on the night of Wednesday, April 13 at the Imbanaco Clinic in Cali.
From the Camposanto Metropolitano del Sur, a crowd gathered for the burial of the former player honored him by wrapping his coffin with a commemorative ribbon, a flag of Colombia and a flag of America de Cali, a club in which he played in the Colombian Pacific, region where Rincón was born and emerged as a professional.
With the D1324 plaque that places it in the southern cemetery of the capital of Vallecaucana, the members of the funeral home and local workers used as a reference point two blue tents on a perimeter fenced by the National Police and with controlled capacity for their closest ones.
The last farewell of the former Colombian team striker was still symbolic and nostalgic and was attended by one of his former football teammates, René Higuita, who greeted his sons Sebastián and Steven, before looking for the last time at the coffin that will lie forever on the lands of the department of Valle del Cauca.
After several minutes of commemorative silence and with the salsa songs in the background that most excited Rincón, the former player's closest mourners, former coach and former sports commentator continued to pay tribute before leaving home on the penultimate day of Easter in 2022.
From 10 a.m. that Freddy's body was in the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium, until 6 p.m. when they took him to his final destination, the football fan and the people who knew him did not stop cheering with flags, songs, whistles and t-shirts of the remembered Colossus of Bonaventura, a phenomenon that even joined the bars of the two local teams (América and Cali), prior to the vallecaucano classic of this Sunday, April 17, 2022, in honor of their memory and sporting legacy.
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