Social media users are interacting with Diaz in a video that shows him touring his hometown of Barrancas and saying hello to people. Said to be one of the poorer regions in the nation, the town sits in the north of Colombia and is home to slightly under 40,000 people.

Playing on sand fields as a child, Diaz later represented Atletico Junior and Barranquilla in Colombia’s top two divisions. Situated in the northern region of the nation lies the city of Barranquilla, home to both teams.

Barranquilla president Ernesto Rafael Herrera told Mirror Football in February that “for us in the Barranquilla Futbol Club is a cause of great pride to see Luis Diaz in Liverpool and the success he is having at the beginning and to know that he will succeed.”

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