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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Díaz and the second or maternal family name is Marulanda.
Luis Díaz
Personal information
Full name Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda
Date of birth (1997-01-13) 13 January 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Barrancas, Colombia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Porto
Number 7
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Barranquilla FC 34 (3)
2017–2019 Atletico Junior 67 (15)
2019– Porto 77 (26)
International career‡
2017 Colombia U20 5 (0)
2018– Colombia 32 (7)
Medal record
Representing  Colombia
Men’s football
Copa América
Third place 2021
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:50, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:50, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Portuguese Primeira Liga club Porto and the Colombia national team.

Diaz began his professional career in the Colombian Second Division at Barranquilla, before moving to Junior, winning Categoría Primera A, one Copa Colombia and one Superliga Colombiana. In 2019, he joined Porto for a reported fee of €7 million, winning a Primeira Liga title, one Taça de Portugal, and one Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, while being part of the squad that won a domestic double in 2020.

Díaz made his senior international debut for Colombia in 2018. He has made over 30 caps for his country, helping the national team to a third-place finish at the 2021 Copa America, being awarded the Golden Boot as joint top goalscorer of the tournament alongside Argentina's Lionel Messi.

Club career

Atlético Junior

Díaz was born in Barrancas, La Guajira, and was included in Colombia's 22-man squad for the 2015 Copa Americana de Pueblos Indígenas, due to his Wayuu ethnicity.[1] After impressing during the tournament, he joined Atlético Junior in 2016 after a trial period, being immediately assigned to farm team Barranquilla FC.[2] Díaz suffered from malnutrition – an endemic crisis for the Wayuu people – and was given a diet plan by Barranquilla to gain 10 kg.[3]

Díaz made his senior debut on 26 April 2016, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2–1 Categoría Primera B home loss against Deportivo Pereira.[4] His first senior goal came on 14 May, as he scored the winner in a 2–1 home defeat of Cúcuta Deportivo.[5]

On 6 June 2017, after already making his first team debut in the year's Copa Colombia, Díaz was definitely promoted to Junior's main squad.[6] He made his Categoría Primera A debut on 27 August, replacing Matías Mier in a 3–2 loss at Once Caldas,[7] and scored his first goal on 20 September in a 3–1 Copa Sudamericana home win against Cerro Porteño.[8]

Díaz became a regular starter during the 2018 season, and scored his first goal in the top tier on 4 February of that year, by netting the game's only in a home success over Atlético Bucaramanga. He also added braces against Once Caldas,[9] Atlético Huila[10] and Rionegro Águilas,[11] ending the campaign with 16 goals overall.

Porto

Transfer

On 10 July 2019, Díaz signed for Portuguese club FC Porto on a five-year contract,[12] with the club buying 80% of his economic rights for a fee of €7 million.[13] Zenit Saint Petersburg had also wanted to sign him, but he was convinced by compatriot former Porto players Radamel Falcao and James Rodríguez, as well as his national coach Carlos Queiroz, a Portuguese.[13]

2019–21: Development and adaptation to Portugal

Díaz made his debut on 7 August in a 1–0 win at Krasnodar in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round first leg as a 55th-minute substitute for Romário Baró,[14] and six days later in the return game he scored his first goal, albeit in a 3–2 loss at the Estádio do Dragão.[15] Domestically, he made his Primeira Liga debut on 10 August in a 2–1 loss at Gil Vicente as a substitute, and a week later scored for the first to wrap up a 4–0 home win against Vitória F.C. as a starter.[16] In November, he, Mateus Uribe, Agustín Marchesín and Renzo Saravia were suspended from the derby against Boavista for having partied the night before.[17]

In his first season in Portugal, Díaz totalled 50 appearances and 14 goals as Porto won the league and the Taça de Portugal. In the final of the latter on 1 August 2020, he was sent off after 38 minutes in a 2–1 win over Benfica at the Estádio Cidade de Coimbra.[18] On 21 October 2020, he scored his first UEFA Champions League goal on his debut in a 1–3 defeat against Manchester City in the 2020–21 season.[19]

On 23 December, Díaz came on as a 77th-minute substitute for Mehdi Taremi in the 2020 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira against O Clássico rivals Benfica, and scored to confirm a 2–0 win.[20] The following 10 February, he was sent off in a 1–1 draw at Braga in a cup semi-final for unintentionally breaking David Carmo's leg; compatriot Uribe was also dismissed.[21]

2021–22: Breakthrough

On 11 September 2021, Díaz in a 1–1 away draw against rivals Sporting CP.[22] On 9 October, he scored the only goal of a 1–0 UEFA Champions League group stage win over A.C. Milan.[23]

With two goals in a 4–0 win over Moreirense on 1 November, he reached five goals in his first six league games, best in the league;[24] 27 days later he scored his tenth, a long-range effort in the 2–1 victory over Vitória de Guimarães; this goal earned him the Primeira Liga Goal of the Month award.[25] His performances led to him being also named the league's Player of the Month and Forward of the Month for October and November.[26]

International career

After representing Colombia at under-20 level in the 2017 South American U-20 Championship, Díaz was called up to the full squad on 27 August 2018, for friendlies against Venezuela and Argentina.[27] He made his full international debut on 11 September, replacing Juan Cuadrado in a 0–0 draw against the latter at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.[28] Díaz scored his first international goal on 26 March 2019, equalising in a 2–1 friendly loss away to South Korea.[29] He was part of Carlos Queiroz' 23-man squad for the 2019 Copa América in Brazil.[30]

Díaz was included in Colombia's squad for the 2021 Copa América.[31] On 23 June, he scored the opening goal in a 2–1 first round loss to hosts Brazil with an acrobatic volley,[32] and on 6 July he scored their goal in a semi-final draw against Argentina, which ended in an Argentine victory following a penalty shoot-out.[33] Three days later, he scored twice, including the match-winning goal, in a 3–2 victory over Peru in the third-place match.[34] He ended as joint top goalscorer of the tournament alongside Lionel Messi.[35][36]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 23 January 2022[37]
Club Season League National Cup[a] League Cup[b] Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Barranquilla 2016 Categoría Primera B 19 2 2 0 — — — 21 2
2017 Categoría Primera B 15 1 6 0 — — — 21 1
Total 34 3 8 0 — — — 42 3
Junior 2017 Categoría Primera A 12 0 7 0 — 4[c] 1 — 23 1
2018 Categoría Primera A 38 13 2 0 — 19[d] 3 — 59 16
2019 Categoría Primera A 17 2 2 0 — 5[e] 0 2[f] 1 26 3
Total 67 15 11 0 — 28 4 2 1 108 20
Porto 2019–20 Primeira Liga 29 6 6 2 5 2 10[g] 4 — 50 14
2020–21 Primeira Liga 30 6 6 1 1 1 9[h] 2 1[i] 1 47 11
2021–22 Primeira Liga 18 14 3 0 1 0 6[h] 2 — 28 16
Total 77 26 15 3 7 3 25 8 1 1 125 41
Career total 178 44 34 3 7 3 53 12 3 3 275 64
  1. ^ Includes Copa Colombia and Taça de Portugal
  2. ^ Includes Taça da Liga
  3. ^ Appearances in Copa Sudamericana
  4. ^ Nine appearances in Copa Libertadores, ten appearances and three goals in Copa Sudamericana
  5. ^ Appearances in Copa Libertadores
  6. ^ Appearances in Superliga Colombiana
  7. ^ Two appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, eight appearances and three goals in UEFA Europa League
  8. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  9. ^ Appearance in Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

International

As of match played 28 January 2022[38]
National team Year Competitive Friendly Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Colombia 2018 0 0 1 0 1 0
2019 3 0 10 1 13 1
2020 2 0 0 0 2 0
2021 15 6 0 0 15 6
2022 1 0 0 0 1 0
Total 21 6 11 1 32 7

International goals

Scores and results list Colombia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Díaz goal.[39]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 26 March 2019 Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea  South Korea 1–1 1–2 Friendly
2 3 June 2021 Estadio Nacional, Lima, Peru  Peru 3–0 3–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
3 23 June 2021 Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  Brazil 1–0 1–2 2021 Copa América
4 6 July 2021 Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília, Brazil  Argentina 1–1 1–1 2021 Copa América
5 9 July 2021  Peru 2–1 3–2
6 3–2
7 9 September 2021 Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, Barranquilla, Colombia  Chile 3–1 3–1 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Junior

Porto

Individual

References

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