WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… PLAY PRO RUGBY IN COLOMBIA
ON AN artificial pitch in the Colombian Andes, Facundo Ferrario sends a ball spiralling over the perimeter fence and into the local neighbourhood of breezeblock buildings and corrugated iron roofs. Not so long ago, it would have been a dangerous task to go and collect it.
Once dubbed the murder capital of the world, Medellín – Colombia’s second largest city – was synonymous with cocaine cartels, kidnappings and guerrilla bombings in the 1990s and early 2000s. Today the city wins prizes for urban regeneration and social policy. It
