2023-11-18 03:38:22
11/17/2023 22:38hs.
Paint your village and you will be universal,” said the great Russian writer León Tostoi, giving absolute rank to any work that, describing a limited space, transcends that origin and can move any observer in the world. What Luis Díaz did this Thursday was in Barranquilla, but it has become universal.
The skilled Liverpool winger had already been on all the front pages when, playing in the Premier, he celebrated a goal by displaying a t-shirt the request for the release of his father, who had been kidnapped in La Guajira, Colombia. The worldwide visibility of the episode contributed to rapid interventions to get him released, and two days later He was able to be on the field to watch his son play. against Brazil.
When, in four minutes, Luisito scored the two goals that turned the game around to win it 2-1, Don Luis Manuel almost fainted from emotion in the stands.
On his unforgettable afternoon old hollywood hero (Don’t tell me it’s not one of those movies with such ostentatiously happy endings that they even border on cliché and corniness), Luis was the son that we all want to bethe one who can offer his parents in a single heroic act all the gratitude for having given us life.
Surely all of us (well, perhaps some will say “I will give it to my father”, and perhaps they will have reasons) would want to be able to offer our elders such a formidable tribute, such great joy, visible to the whole world, and thus, in life after going through the tremendous trauma of her abduction. Many times we just remembered to thank you what they did for us when they are no longer there…
This was a crowning moment, the ultimate tribute, although often they settle for much smaller gesturesthat we go to lunch or drink mate with them, that we accompany them to the doctor or that we call them to chat for a while on the phone.
The player’s parents in the stadium. Both were kidnapped (AP Photo / Iván Valencia). Moment when the guerrillas free Díaz’s father and hand him over to a UN mission (EFE / Adamis Guerra).
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