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The applause that was heard in the stadium University of Phoenix At minute 77 of the game it was deafening. At that moment the two most influential footballers in the world left the field. Colombian national team in the match against Costa Rica (3-0).
One is already a figure consolidated with the National Team. The other one barely added his first minutes in an official match with the national team, although he is already an experienced forward who is 31 years old.
The Guajiro winger Luis Diaz and the Chocoan center attacker John Cordoba were decisive in the seventeenth triumph of the Tricolor in the era Nestor Lorenzo. Not only because of the goal that each one scored, but because the influence they had on the development of the game.
Díaz, who played his 51st game with the national team, participated in 7 attacking actions. The first one, although it didn’t result in a goal, was a luxury. They sent a deep pass to the Guajiro winger. Instead of touching the ball, he tricked his rival with a movement of his hips and beat her to the line. He put the center. James Rodríguez could not define.
For its part, Córdoba, who on March 26 scored his first goal with the Colombian team in the 3-2 victory against Romania, directly influenced two plays that ended in goals for the Creoles.
The footballer born in Itsmina, He collided, generated the foul that ended in the penalty with which the scoring opened. Córdoba ran into the area with a long pass. The goalkeeper knocked him down in a clumsy move. The referee blew the whistle for a penalty.
Luis Díaz kicked him. He scored his thirteenth goal with the Colombian National Team. In addition, he reached 5 scores in the two editions of America Cup that he has played in (he scored 4 times in the 2021 edition), equalling Ernesto Díaz (who died in 2002), who wore the team’s jersey in the 1975 and 1979 editions of the continental tournament.
“I’m happy to score a goal. That fills me with confidence for what’s coming (the game against Brazil). The most important thing is to help the team. “We are all giving our best to leave our team at the top,” said Lucho Díaz.
Córdoba, who with his shots helped Colombia to shoot 17 times at the opponent’s goal during the match, scored the goal that closed the score. With a powerful shot, after a good run, he scored his first goal in an official match with the National Team.
“I am very happy with the goal. But I am also happy with what I brought to the team.” “The group is united and we are a family. It doesn’t matter who scores. The most important thing is to win,” said the forward from Krasnodar of Russia, who was cheered along with the Guajiro for his effort against Costa Rica.
