El veintiséis de mayo/May 26th
Photo (from minuto30.com. Click HERE ) of Cuadrado's mother, wife, daughter, and stepsister with him after a game. ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Juan Cuadrado! (1988-) A professional soccer player from Colombia, Cuadrado now plays for the Italian club Juventus as well as the Colombian national team. He is featured alongside Lionel Messi on the cover of FIFA 2016 in Latin America. Cuadrado was born in Necolí, Colombia, and during his childhood experienced the violence of war (Colombia was going through what is referred to as "The Colombian Conflict," which was first a part of the Cold War (1964-1991) and then a part of the War on Drugs (1991-2016, when a peace deal was signed)). When he was just four years old there was a firefight by his home and he hid under the bed, as his parents instructed him to do. That saved his life, but his father was killed. Cuadrado's mother, now responsible for earning a living (Cuadrado's father had been a truck driver), went to wor...