The Goalie Who Went to Hell and Back
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
America disappeared an innocent man into a terrorist prison, for his Real Madrid tattoo. This is his story of survival — and resistance — from correspondent Paola Ramos.
• Previously on PTFO: The Goalie Who Disappeared
• Read "Defectors" by Paola Ramos
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:02.1 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:07.7 | Is this what you lived? |
| 0:09.9 | Is this torture? |
| 0:13.1 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:28.2 | It is just like hard to look at the news and be like, is this going to end well? |
| 0:31.4 | Can we get a happy ending? |
| 0:40.4 | The last time you were here, we ended with a bit of a brutal takeaway in which there was no guarantee that there was going to be a happy ending. Thank you, Palo Ramos, for being back with us. |
| 0:44.2 | Always. You bring me for the sad stories. Well, this is the key part. You are not only our |
| 0:49.6 | translator and reporter and expert on this story, having devoted so much of your life, to the question |
| 0:56.1 | of immigration and now this administration and Latin America, you're also somebody who brought |
| 1:02.8 | to us the last time a prayer. |
| 1:10.3 | This is the youth soccer team from Machigez. |
| 1:15.6 | Machigis is a small town in northwest Venezuela. |
| 1:18.6 | It's right by the Venezuelan and Colombian border. |
| 1:20.6 | And these are kids that are part of the youth soccer team. |
| 1:24.6 | And they're under 12 years old. |
| 1:26.6 | And they're part of this club called |
| 1:28.5 | Perijanero, Berrihanero Soccer Club. |
| 1:35.4 | Number one, they're saying guide him, wherever he is, help free him, liberate him, |
| 1:41.3 | so he's free. |
| 1:42.8 | And the hymn in question is their coach, who's also himself a soccer player, |
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