Luis Fernando Díaz Marulanda 

(born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian professional footballer who

plays as a winger for Premier League club Liverpool 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.
After 14 league goals in 18 league games in the first half of 2021–22, Liverpool signed him in a
transfer worth €45 million (£37.5 million).
Díaz made his senior international debut for Colombia in 2018. He has earned 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.

CHAPTER 1 Contents

 1Club career
o 1.1Atlético Junior
o 1.2Porto
 1.2.1Transfer
 1.2.22019–21: Development and adaptation to Portugal
 1.2.32021–22: Breakthrough and departure
o 1.3Liverpool
 2International career
 3Career statistics
o 3.1Club
o 3.2International
 4Honours
 5References
 6External links

CHAPTER 2 Club career[edit]

CHAPTER 3 Atlético Junior[edit]
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.[3] After impressing during the
tournament, he joined Atlético Junior in 2016 after a trial period, being immediately assigned to farm
team Barranquilla.[4] Díaz suffered from malnutrition – an endemic crisis for the Wayuu people – and
was given a diet plan by Barranquilla to gain 10 kg.[5]
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.[6] His first senior goal came on 14 May, as
he scored the winner in a 2–1 home defeat of Cúcuta Deportivo.[7]
On 6 June 2017, after already making his first team debut in the year's Copa Colombia, Díaz was
subsequently promoted to Junior's main squad.[8] He made his Categoría Primera A debut on 27
August, replacing Matías Mier in a 3–2 loss at Once Caldas,[9] and scored his first goal on 20
September in a 3–1 Copa Sudamericana home win against Cerro Porteño.[10]
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,[11] Atlético Huila[12] and Rionegro Águilas,[13] ending the
campaign with 16 goals overall.

CHAPTER 4 Porto[edit]
CHAPTER 5 Transfer[edit]
On 10 July 2019, Díaz signed for Portuguese club FC Porto on a five-year contract,[14] with the club
buying 80% of his economic rights for a fee of €7 million.[15] 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.[15]

CHAPTER 6 2019–21: Development and adaptation to Portugal[edit]

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,[16] and six days later in the
return game he scored his first goal, albeit in a 3–2 loss at the Estádio do Dragão.[17] 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 de Guimarães as a starter.[18] In
November, he, Mateus Uribe, Agustín Marchesín and Renzo Saravia were suspended from the derby
against Boavista for having partied the night before.[19]
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.[20] 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.[21]
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.[22] 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.[23]

CHAPTER 7 2021–22: Breakthrough and departure[edit]

On 11 September 2021, Díaz in a 1–1 away draw against rivals Sporting CP.[24] On 9 October, he
scored the only goal of a 1–0 UEFA Champions League group stage win over A.C. Milan.[25]
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;[26] 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.
[27]
 His performances led to him being also named the league's Player of the Month and Forward of the
Month for October and November.[28]
On 19 December, Diaz was named the league's Forward of the Month for the second consecutive
month, after scoring four goals and providing three assists.[29]

CHAPTER 8 Liverpool