For this reason, and prior to the duel against Real Madridthe newspaper El País of Spain dedicated an article to him to clarify many of those stories that put the star of the Liverpool in different situations.
The half explains that there is a public biography of the athlete in which all kinds of lies are told, and that is why he criticizes what happens around the phenomenon that his arrival in English football became:
“You can love a person very much, as happens these days to Colombia with Luis Fernando Díaz, and caricature her to the point of becoming an idol”.
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One of the first statements that the newspaper denies about the footballer is that he suffered from malnutrition and attributes it to a comment from a coach who knew him very young and who assured “that at 18 he could not play two games in a row because he lost muscle” .
El País clarifies that although “his weakness has been assimilated with hunger”, “the reality is that he is a 180-centimeter athlete, fast and resistant, capable of making continuous efforts of 50 meters, an essential condition in modern football”.
Regarding this alleged malnutrition, he even quotes a Didier Paz, a kinesiologist who met him in the selection of the Onic, the National Indigenous organization of Colombia: “It is not true. There is no medical data to corroborate that.
About that, it is also said that Díaz lived in an indigenous reservation and the only certainty related to the native peoples is that he was part of that team “out of mutual interest”, in the sense that his great-grandmother was Wayuú, but without having customs typical of that ethnic group from La Guajira or speaking their language.
The Spanish media recalls that ‘Lucho’ only entered to play professional football until he was 17 years old when his father, Mane Díaz, accompanied him to present himself —along with 3,000 other youngsters— to Barranquilla FC and from there his career shot up at the same speed that the band travels today.
Two years later he was already in the Junior and quickly made the leap to Europe with the Porto; It was there that Jürgen Klopp noticed him. But before that romance he had to help his body gain poweras Paz told El País:
“He started a medical treatment of multivitamin amino acids to increase his muscle mass. For the first time in her life she did gym work. ‘She grew stronger without losing speed. That made him the beast he is today. It’s rare for him to lose a hand-to-hand duel.’”
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The text details that in the afternoons he was part of the group of young people that his father trained and that, at some point, it was even said that the peasant was a shepherd, but it is a lie; although he did study in a religious institution in which he had a delicate accident:
“On one occasion they attended a science class in which the use of hydrocarbons was explained. When he finished, his friend sprayed the door of the room with leftover gasoline. Someone lit a match. Luis Díaz, who was passing by, caught fire in his sports pants. His cloth stuck to his skin and seared his leg. he wept horribly“.
Now, a teacher who had him as a student takes him as an example with a curious memory she has of him:
“The English teacher, María Pía, says that on one occasion Luis Díaz asked her what the hell another language was for him. He now plays in an English team: ‘When the children don’t want to learn I tell them this anecdote’”.
Meanwhile, Rosidis Oñate, another of his teachers, highlights the discipline that was seen in him since he was a child and that today is part of his success: “Here the parents introduce their children to alcohol at 13, it is cultural. He was different. Suddenly the universe or nature protected him”.
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It was the soccer star of the 90s who chose the players for the indigenous team and that is why it is said that he was their guide, although ‘El Pibe’ has never said so: “It is the others who have built this narrative around , that of the old idol who discovers his successor. Indeed, Valderrama valued him and took him into account, but he did not look for a team or was interested in his future“.
“Luis’s only mentor is his father,” Paz pointed out in his conversation with the newspaper. The father of the young peasant worked hard to help his family and that is why Díaz did not live in misery either; another lie around him that falls.
