Since April 16, in the face of the death of Colombian football icon Freddy Rincón, fans and followers of this star of football began using the D1 324, the number of the tomb of the 'Colossus' of Buenaventura, to place bets on the lottery and chance positions to play luck.
Although they don't use some used them in the order, others put them in disorder, but there have been many who have used that pattern of numbers, with the aim of earning some extra money, thinking that Rincón will give them luck, just as he did in football.
The bad news is that in the face of a high flow of people asking to bet with those numbers, the country's lottery and betting houses disabled 1324, to avoid congestion, but, it should be noted that the fans have used other options and what they are doing are combinations of the number.
It should be remembered that this is not an isolated event, due to the fact that it has happened on previous occasions such as the death of celebrities such as Diomedes Díaz, Martín Elias, who used their dates of death to gamble.
On the other hand, speculations continue as to what happened on the night of the accident, in which Rincón was seriously injured and later died. There have also been videos of the player's last hours, which show that, in the early hours of Monday, April 11, Freddy Rincón was sharing in the house of the salsa singer, Hárold Saa, along with other friends, such as Édison Ruiz, former mayor of Buenaventura.
In addition, it became known through a publication of El País de Cali, a photograph of Rincón in which you can see the former footballer dressed in a white t-shirt and wearing a black cap while clapping his hands. It was also known that he was in the company of two women, who are now key witnesses of the Prosecutor's Office to clarify what happened that night.
According to the transit report, the Colombian football idol was a co-driver, receiving the strongest impact, and that Maria Manuela Patiño, 20, and Diana Lorena Cortés, 43, were with him.
The women have said that who was with him, that Rincón was the one who was driving that fateful night, so now they will be summoned in the coming days by the Prosecutor's Office to give their version of the facts.
In order to pay homage to him on the different courts of the country, they made a minute of silence and in the classic America against Deportivo Cali, where Adrián Ramos and Teófilo Gutiérrez as a tribute used the numbers on their backs 14 and 19, numbers that he usually used to play with.
For his part, on the radio program 'En La Jugada', the journalist Francisco Vélez announced a request that he made to the mayor of the 'branch of heaven', Jorge Iván Ospina, for a tribune of the Pascual Guerrero stadium to be named after Freddy Rincón.
According to the communicator, Ospina would not have the absolute power to change the name to the tribune del Pascual, but he could submit the application to the Cali Council and the institution that owns the sports space, La Universidad del Valle, to consider renaming a stadium grandstand in honor of the legendary player which gave so much joy to the people of Caleños and Colombians with their goals.