1.   And after Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar embarrassed his country by kicking a soccer ball into the wrong net, he returned home where his country embarrassed itself.

2.   Such violence, unfortunately, has long been part of Colombian soccer, in which drug barons play key roles.

3.   The Colombian soccer boom effectively had ended.

4.   U.S. Soccer officials sent faxes offering their condolences to the Escobar family and the Colombian soccer federation.

5.   Two days earlier, Colombian gunmen killed a Colombian soccer star, who had inadvertently scored a goal for the other team.

6.   A group of six young men stood in the airport wearing Colombian soccer team jackets, en route to Seoul, South Korea.

7.   A Colombian professional soccer team, Once Caldas, was staying in the hotel.

8.   After a rash of bombings and the kidnapping of a prominent Colombian soccer official, the South American Soccer Confederation said the tournament was suspended until next year.

9.   After a rash of bombings and the kidnapping of a prominent Colombian soccer official, the South American Soccer Confederation postponed the tournament until next year.

10.   An unidentified gunman shot and killed Arturo Bustamante, a Colombian soccer executive, as he left a country restaurant Sunday with his wife.