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Ballon d’Or: how many Colombians have been nominated? | Colombians Abroad

Accompanying the return of European football, Colombians will have a leading role in the five largest leagues in the world. Helibelton Palacios, Johan Mojica, Radamel Falcao García, Bernardo Espinosa among others in Spain, Yerry Mina, Dávinson Sánchez, Steven Álzate, Jefferson Lerma, Luis Fernando Sinisterra, Ian Carlos Poveda, Yerson Mosquera and a Luis Fernando Díaz more than tuned in Liverpool They are the ones who dominate the Premier League.

Luis Fernando Díaz jumped from Portuguese football to the competitive Premier League. He left tremendous sensations in the Liga NOS in Portugal scoring 14 goals and before he left, he was the top scorer for the local rent. Liverpool took him and as soon as he arrived, he began to gain recognition around the world, not only in the British league but in every South America and in the most important magazines that generate prestigious awards such as France Football, which is responsible for the delivery of the Ballon d’Or.

Once he reached the toughest competition in the world like the Premier League, Luis Fernando Díaz won two titles like the Carabao Cup and the FA Cup without having preseason with Liverpool. He generated doubts about his probable explosion, but in such a short time he changed the unknowns in the English football fans for excellent comments. His adaptation was quick and he fit in perfectly fighting for the local rent, and for the Champions League in which they were runners-up.

Now, he started a new season with a title won in the Community Shield, and a debut that left doubts in the Premier League. He scored a disallowed goal and a shot at the post. Referents of the contest spoke about the fact that it is a mistake to put Luis Díaz as the perfect replacement for Sadio Mané. However, the peasant makes history at 25 years old, and the world has recognized him by rubbing shoulders with recognized players in an important list of nominees for the Ballon d’Or, accompanying the Senegalese.

For Luis Díaz, it is the first time that he has entered his name on the list of 30 nominees to opt for the Ballon d’Or with Vinicius Jr, Phil Foden, Luka Modric, Casemiro, Fabinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thibaut Courtois, Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappé, among other well-known footballers. But he is not the first Colombian to be a candidate for the award.

With his performance shown at Porto and Liverpool, Luis Díaz accompanies Radamel Falcao García, who was the first for his performances at Atlético de Madrid during 2012 and 2013, years in which he showed his best moment in his sports career as a mattress player . In the first year, he was fifth, and in the next, eleventh. As if that were not enough, the samarium always stood out in LaLiga in the ideal team in 2012, and in that same year he was included in the ideal XI in the world.

After Radamel Falcao García, it was the turn of James David Rodríguez. James was also in two years in a row. His highest peak was in 2014, the year in which he scored the best goal in the world in the World Cup in the round of 16 against Uruguay and finished eighth in the dispute for the Ballon d’Or. In 2015, after his experience in the Real Madrid was nineteenth.

For their part, Faustino Asprilla and Iván Ramiro Córdoba were candidates for the FIFA World Player of the Year award. The striker in 1993, 1996 and 1997, while the defender in 2001. Although the recognition would be the same, being the best player in the world, it is not the same as the award that France Football awards, known as the Ballon d’Or.

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