Liverpool winger Luis Diaz says he treats every game as a chance to seek revenge for the difficulties he has endured to get him to this point in his career.
One of his hobbies as a malnourished child himself was to watch trains pass by his small village of Barrancas carrying coal, much of which was destined for Europe.
He could surely not have imagined then that years later he would head to the same continent and set the football world alight.
Asked where he got his self-belief from, Diaz told UEFA’s YouTube channel: ‘From La Guajira. It comes from my roots. I always played football in my town, in my homeland.
‘They are my characteristics, they have instilled in me several things that I have today and now I have grown much more. That’s my game.
‘Each game is a revenge for always going out to look for more, I know what it costs and I have to take advantage of every moment, every minute I have.
‘The rest is very important for what is to come.’
