Much is said about the moment of Duván Zapata with Atalanta and the good moment in which he arrives at the Colombian National Team for the qualifying matches, but little is detailed in his personal life.
Precisely on the latter, the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) published a video in which Zapata talks a little about his family, the National Team and the occasional little-known detail.
Here we leave you this format as a ‘question and answer’ with everything you said:
Goal that remembers with the National Team – The one I did to Argentina in the Copa América (2019). It was the first game and it was also my first Copa América, so that’s the one I remember with the most emotion.
Duván on the court vs Duván off it – I have been told and I always feel it. When I enter the field I transform. That shyness that I may have as a person, it goes away. I like it because I can enter the field of play and be free, be me, demonstrate all my conditions.
Nickname ‘El Toro’ – It is a nickname that I do not quite accept but I know that for all the Colombian people I am ‘El Toro’. I swallow it and accept.
Origin of the nickname – I really do not know. It’s not that the boys have put it on me … The people, the fans put it on me.
What other nickname would you like – Sometimes I ask myself that question and I don’t have an answer either. He thinks about things and I say ‘no no’ so I wouldn’t know what to answer.
New style – With my wife we decided to grow my youngest son’s hair and at first he didn’t like it, he said that at school everyone looked at him, they wanted to touch his hair. Back then he was a bit shy, now he’s a demon, and to give him courage I let him grow up too and he identified a bit … Now he likes it, he even has it super long; I already grew my hair long, I have my particular look.
Your child’s nickname – He comes home counting, says they call him ‘Duvancito’ and he likes it, he’s happy.
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