Lucio Fernando España was a Colombia

Colombia

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n footballer

Football (soccer)

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. The defender helped Atlético Nacional

Atlético Nacional

Corporación Deportiva Atlético Nacional is a Colombian football team based in Medellín. They play their home games at the Estadio Atanasio Girardot stadium which also serves as home to Deportivo Independiente Medellín...

 win the national league title in 1999, and also played for Atlético Bucaramanga

Atlético Bucaramanga

Club Atlético Bucaramanga Corporacion Deportiva, known simply as Atlético Bucaramanga, is a Colombian football club based in the city of Bucaramanga. The club was founded in 1949...

, Real Cartagena

Real Cartagena

Real Cartagena, is a Colombian football club based in the city of Cartagena. The club was founded in 1971 and play their home games at the Estadio Jaime Morón León, which has a capacity of 20,000 approximately.-Current roster:As of Jan 28, 2011...

, Atlético Junior

Atlético Junior

Corporación Popular Deportiva Junior, known simply as Junior or by its former name Atlético Junior, is a Colombian football team based in Barranquilla. The club was founded in 1924 Known as "Los Tiburones" , or "El Equipo Tiburón" have won the Colombian professional football championship six times...

, and Deportivo Pereira

Deportivo Pereira

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On June 2, 2005 he was shot in Santiago de Cali

Santiago de Cali

Santiago de Cali , simply referred to as Cali, is a city in western Colombia and the capital of the Valle del Cauca Department. With a population of 2.5 million, Cali is the third largest city in the country. It has one of the fastest growing economies and infrastructure in the country because...

 by two robbers. A number of Colombian footballers have been shot the last 20 years, the most notable being Andrés Escobar

Andrés Escobar

Andrés Escobar Saldarriaga , nicknamed "The Gentleman of Football", was a Colombian footballer who was shot and killed in Medellín. It is widely believed that he was murdered due to his own goal in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which supposedly would have caused gambling losses to several powerful drug...

. Other firearms victims include former Atlético Nacional players Albeiro Usuriaga

Albeiro Usuriaga

Albeiro Usuriaga López was a Colombian footballer who played as a striker.Nicknamed El Palomo, he played professionally in Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela, before being murdered at the age of 37.-Club career:Usuriaga first came to prominence with...

, who was killed in Cali one year earlier, and Felipe Perez.