Enzo Díaz, the tireless gaucho who has lived without electricity for 14 years, was about to train “Rocky style” and is now jumping at the River

history tells Gustavo Grobocopatel, president and owner of Agropecuario. The circle of Carlos Casares Played the preseason and the teacher killed players with passes. “It was, run, abs and run again. Some would collapse, end up vomiting.

But, while many players fell and collapsed, there was a gaucho who ran, did abs, looked to the side and laughed at his classmates: “Come on, what’s wrong with them”. She was running again and kept grinding her abs.

“He is an animal, physically”remember the man who belongs to the family of kings of soy in Argentina.

When he started playing soccer, Enzo Díaz ran away to train from home. Thus, “a la Rocky”, the few neighbors who appeared in the 8 kilometers that separated Club Atlético Smith from his home, in the town of Las Toscas, saw him pass.

“I ran back because it was getting dark. That’s why I don’t mind running or training,” he recalls now as a pro.

Hence also the resistance he has today to go round and back on the left wing. Resistance, quality and a good punch, which made Manchester United focus on him and now River have bought him from Talleres for the left-back of the team that is forming Martín Demichelis.

But Díaz’s story has been out of the flash for most of his life. So much so that up to the age of 14 he lived in the middle of the fields, without electricity, on the hectares that his father worked where he learned to reap, tame and raise cattle: “Everything that has to do with the fields excites me,” he accepts . .

“I grew up without television. My teammates were talking about Tinelli and I didn’t know him. Then I adapted. But for me my childhood was the best, I don’t regret anything,” he said in an interview with FM Impacto. From there, Enzo tries to be present at all dressage festivals, exhibitions and championships that his career allows him.

Enzo Díaz is one of the great idols of Agropecuario because he has been there since its foundation and has been part of the two promotions. He reached the B Nacional e Marcelo Gallardo kept an eye on himbut before that, in 2019, the player made the leap to Talleres.

In the T, it did not take Díaz long to consolidate and soon took over the left wing, first as a full-back and then as a midfielder where he can showcase his best assets: the punch, the header and, what is most appreciated in a full-back/midfielder, an extraordinary ease in reaching a goal situation. The brand? Not being a rustic, he is not the one who is considered the most, despite being a player who also fills that role.

Another of the issues that stand out about Díaz is his personality. He made his debut in Talleres for the Copa Libertadores and on the San Pablo field. The leap was great: from B with Agropecuario direct and non-stop to Morumbí. Enzo was a key figure in the ranking of the Cordobans against the Brazilian giant. There he started gaining fans. But all the more so when he received a criminal kick against Everton and decided to continue playing with a bandage covering half of his head.

In September of last year, Talleres visited the Cilindro de Avellaneda e Enzo showed that quality left foot strike. Auzqui flooded down the right, Neri Domínguez cleared and the ball fell to Díaz outside the box. The man born in Lincoln and raised on a Las Toscas field stopped her chest, let it prick and unleashed a three-fingered left-footed shot that made a nice parabola to slip into the far post of goalkeeper Gabriel Arias . The player celebrated it with the naturalness of one who knows that the ball did what he wanted and that he can score many more goals like that.

Total, Enzo Díaz played 128 games for Talleres and scored seven goals. But the last 6 goals have been scored in the last 64 games.

True to its roots On January 8, the footballer was at the Jesús María festival, fully dressed as a gaucho, as he used to dress when he accompanied his father to graze the cattle in the countryside, and a Talleres fan approached him to ask for a photo. Before saying goodbye, he asked about his continuity in the T: “It’s difficult,” replied the player who no longer trained with the team and had his bags packed to travel to Núñez.

This Friday Enzo will undergo a medical and then sign a three-year contract with River. Jorge Brito and Andres Fassi, the presidents of River and Talleres, closed the pass for two and a half million dollars.