If someone says “Emiliano Martínez”, it can take a few seconds to associate that name with the Argentine national goalkeeper. However, when you say “Dibu Martínez”, the association is instantaneous. It is that player who wears the shirt with the number 23 on staggered World Champion He’s had that nickname since he was a child..
The goalkeeper, born in 1992 in Mar del Plata, as Damian EmilianoI was 4 years old when the Argentine strip began to be broadcast on the Telefe screen my family is a drawinga comedy starring German Kraus and Stella Maris Closas. Among the characters in the comedy there was a boy, Dibu, who, despite being a cartoon, he was one of the family group.
For him the blond hair pulled red and the freckles that characterized the design of the small screen there was a resemblance to the baby Emiliano. Or viceversa. And that’s what they started calling him, some time later, his friends and colleagues in the ranks of Independienteaccording to Martínez himself, he explained the origin of his nickname.
Everyone it happened before Martínez went to try out professionally in Englandwhere he has lived since 2009. After playing for Arsenal in London, he is currently the starting goalkeeper for Aston Villa in Birmingham, which is part of the English Premier League.
Despite Dibu’s brilliant performance at the World Cup in Qatar, he was second in the recent world ranking of archers prepared by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), behind the Belgian Thibaut Courtois.
Today he is world champion and his name is strong in the European market, yet he retains a playful imprint, in line with his nickname, which he loves. And he is one of the most extroverted of the Scaloni team.
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That children’s series with which the protagonist identifies he was one of the first to incorporate the combination of real actors with animation digitally. The family comedy aired until 1998, but the figure of the boy Dibu is still in the memory of many viewers today.
The plot of the comedy told the story of the Marzoa-Medina family, in which Kraus and Closas played the father and mother of three children. Marcela is pregnant when the e-series begins the surprise is total when the fourth child is born, which is nothing more than a cartoon.
Despite the strangeness, the family immediately accepts it and, thinking that someone might take it away from them due to the curious fact that it is a drawing, they take special care and protection of it and even hide it from the rest of the world. This created all kinds of situations typical of a family comedy.
Around the family there were also other characters who were part of the adventures of the red-haired boy. Among them are his brothers, played by Facundo Espinosa, Marcela Kloosterboer and Andrés Ispani. The actress was making her first television job at just 13 in the character of Carolina.
Albert AnchortFor his part, he was the grandfather of the boys and they too participated in different roles Alejandro AwadaMariano Martínez, Nicolás Vázquez, Mario Alarcón, Santiago Bal, Verónica Lozano, Mariana Fabbiani and Valeria Gastaldi.
A curious fact is that most of the episodes of Dibu: My family is a drawing It was directed by Alejandro Stoessel, the father of singer Tini Stoessel. And now he is dating Rodrigo De Paul, Dibu Martínez’s teammate in the Qatar 2022 champion squad.
The image of Dibu was created by the artist Rodolfo Mutuverría, while the voice of the animated boy was entrusted to Cecilia Gispert, while Laura Sordi did the same with Buji, a girl (also animated), who Dibu adopts as his little sister.
Gispert told in an interview the characteristics he gave to Dibu in the dubbing and which were fundamental to forging a very lovable personality for the character: a little raucous, a little cancerous and very cuddly.
Obviously, for the cast, the big challenge was playing the scenes. without the animated character which was later digitally added and that is why it was used a doll that served as a reference for the dialogues, guided by the voice of Gispert. For much of the children’s audience, it came as a surprise to find out that the hoarse, red-headed boy’s voice was played by a woman.
One of the most curious and captivating things shown by the strip was that Dibu, despite being a cartoon, experienced the same situations and experienced the same feelings and emotions as a real child.
The success of the play was such that, after leaving it on television, three films were made with the same characters and original cast: Dibu, the movie, Dibu 2: Nasty’s Revenge Y Drawing 3: the great adventure.
Source: Clarin
