20 days before the start of the 2026 World Cup In the United States, Mexico and Canada, the selection of Colombia We are still waiting to know the list of 26 called up for the World Cup, where the Tricolor will have to face Portugal, Uzbekistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Group K to try to move forward.
However, while in positions such as defense and the line frills some doubts persist from the Argentine technical director Nestor Lorenzoin the attack there seems to be much more clarity, largely thanks to the forward Luis Diazthe 29-year-old Colombian star who currently plays in the Bayern Munich from Germany.
Lucho completed a season remarkable with the Bavarian giant and will surely play his first World Cup with Colombia, after having been left out in the qualifying rounds for the World Cup. 2022where the coffee growers were one point away from the playoffs and entered a transition stage that later bore fruit.
Faced with this scenario, the atmosphere prior to the World Cup is mainly marked by one of the most popular from Latin America: complete the album with the pictures of the players and the teams. Therefore, the strength of this tradition reaches the point that many footballers they dream with appearing one day in its pages.
Luis Díaz and his father Mané
In some cases, the dream of appearing on the album extends to family members and that was precisely what happened with Luis Díaz’s father, Manéwho after having been kidnapped in 2023 starred in a emotional reaction when he had in his hands the stamp of your child, with the face, name and details of the Colombian.
Through a video broadcast on social networks, Mane Diaz He opened some envelopes of stamps and later showed his excitement when he found that of his son, who was included in the roster of the Colombian team after having scored 7 goals and distributed three assists in the eleven games he played in the playoffs globalists.
“I don’t just see the player. I see the boy who dreamed big. The one who never gave up and who put us through dream. How many joys have you given to Colombia? How many times did you make millions shout a goal? How many times have you united an entire country? And here I am, holding you, trying to understand what that child is like today. national pride”he added.
“Brother, what proud We all feel about you. I remember when we played barefoot in front of my grandmother’s house. Do you remember when mom made us run off the field with her belt in your hand?” he added. Rogerone of Luis Díaz’s brothers, who shared the emotion from his father when he saw it in the World Cup album.
This is how Luis Díaz arrives at his first World Cup
He Guajiro He will play his first World Cup at the age of 29 and, to date, he has made 72 appearances for the Colombian national team, in which he has scored 21 goals. Therefore, currently it is the room all-time top scorer of the coffee team, behind Falcao García, James Rodríguez and Arnoldo Iguarán, idols of the Tricolor.
For now, his greatest achievements as a coffee grower have been reflected in the America Cups, where he ended up in third place of the edition of 2021 and later reached runner-up in 2024, after losing the final against the Argentina team, led at that time by the world champions Lio Messi and Lautaro Martínez.