Radamel Enrique García King (16 April 1957 – 3 January 2019) was a Colombian
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a
defender. He competed in the
men's tournament at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...
.
Personal life and death
García was the father of Colombian international,
Radamel Falcao García.
His brothers
Alex García King and
Herbert King were also a footballer and an actor, respectively.
García died on 3 January 2019, aged 61.
References
External links
*
1957 births
2019 deaths
Men's association football central defenders
Colombian men's footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Colombia
Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Footballers from Santa Marta
Footballers from Magdalena Department
Falcao Garcia family
20th-century Colombian sportsmen
{{Colombia-footy-defender-stub