Luis Díaz has had a brilliant start to the season with Liverpool and has already scored again for the Colombian national team. The Guajiro scored the goal that saved a point for Néstor Lorenzo’s team in Lima, against Peru, on a night in which, it must be said, they did not play well.
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Since his debut with the Colombian national team on September 11, 2018, in a 0-0 draw against Argentina in a friendly match in New Jersey, the attacker, with a past in Barranquilla, Junior and Porto, has gradually earned a place in the starting lineup until becoming a decisive player.
Luis Diaz vs. Peru
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Díaz is now two goals away from breaking into the top five of the national team’s all-time scoring charts. He has 15, the same as Victor Aristizabal and Teofilo Gutierrez, and is one behind Carlos Bacca and two behind Freddy Rincon. The Top 4 is made up of Falcao García (36), James Rodríguez (28), Arnoldo Iguarán (24) and Faustino Asprilla (20).
Radamel Falcao Garcia.
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However, if only matches in official tournaments are taken into account, excluding friendlies, Díaz rises in that table. The leader of that ranking is James Rodríguez, with 21 goals between the World Cup, qualifiers and Copa América. Falcao is in second place, with 16, and Arnoldo Iguarán is third, with 14.
Díaz and James, in the draw in Lima.
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Luis Díaz reached two historic goals of the National Team
The Guajiro has 12 goals: three in the qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, three in the current qualifiers, four in the 2021 Copa América, in which he was the top scorer of the championship, and two in the continental tournament that just ended in the United States.
With these 12 goals, Díaz ties with two historic figures from the 90s, Víctor Aristizábal and Faustino Asprilla. However, he needed fewer matches to reach that figure: he scored in 37 official matches. ‘Tino’ needed 41 matches and ‘Aristi’, 48.
Despite these numbers, Díaz was criticized on social media because he was supposedly not decisive in the Copa América in which Colombia reached the final and los
t against Argentina.
A veteran of the national team, Jackson Martínez, came to his defense: “We should support and enjoy players like Lucho Díaz more. A young man who is hungry for success, but sadly people expect things that go beyond that genuine support. He has been playing a very important role, not only when he was in Colombia, but when he left as well,” he told Caracol Radio. This Tuesday, Díaz will once again be in charge of Argentina.
JOSE ORLANDO ASCENCIO
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