After the consecration of the national team in Copa América and the World Cup in Qatar, Emiliano Dibu Martinez He has become one of the most loved by the public along with Lionel Messi and Ángel Di María. And for the little ones, the figure of the man from Mar del Plata has become one of the most influential.
Among the thousands of fans who flock to Ezeiza’s AFA field these days with the dream of seeing the world champions, there was a 7-year-old boy who arrived with his mother with the dream of meeting the Argentine goalkeeper.
Regard Atiel, 7 years old, who received a tender gesture from the former Independent. With the company of his mother and his sister Aimará, the boy went to Ezeiza this Wednesday and made his dream come true.
While having breakfast, before leaving for the property, the Aston Villa 1st saw on television that they made a note to the boy who, dressed as a goalkeeper, spoke of his dream of meeting Dibu.
According to the boy’s mother, Martínez took a photo of him on TV and, when he arrived in Ezeiza, showed it to the security personnel so that they could look for him and let him pass.
Realized dream. The goalkeeper approached, grabbed a fibron and left an autograph on his shirt. He did the same with his sister, another fan.
“I wanted to hug you too”, surprised Ataiel al Dibu, who didn’t hide his emotion. Paraphrasing Lionel Messi, the goalkeeper gave the boy a pass and the tender moment was filmed by his mother.
“You are an idol. You are a boss, a genius. Dad you are with the Dibu! you are an amazing human being“, the woman is heard on the recording.
It was Cinthia who later provided the details of the moving story. “Seeing the happy face of the child is priceless. It’s something that hasn’t been explained yet,” Cinthia said.
“I got off work at 6 in the morning and came home to wake them up. I explained to them the night before that the idea was to take them to the AFA pitch to see if I could see the players from afar and that if I could, I it could be done, at another time it could be so that they don’t get sick,” said the child’s mother in dialogue with TN extension.
He added: “We arrived at 7.30 and the kids started arguing on the grass. Some media made a note to the kids and then told me that Dibu saw the note while he was having breakfast. We stood there waiting at 11 in the morning. The girl started to say that she was hungry and thirsty. We went to buy her something and the moment we went to buy, he arrived at the property”.
At that moment, he said, the goalkeeper of the national team “went to look for the security personnel with the photo he had taken from the TV and asked to look for us among all the people, who wanted to see us”.
“So they came to tell us to come closer because Dibu wanted to meet the child,” concluded the woman through tears.
Before Panama, with a new look
Fundamental with his saves during the World Cup, and even more so, when he had to grow in penalties against France, which ended up giving Argentina the title at the World Cup in Qatar 2022, Dibu Martínez doesn’t make headlines just for being the best goalkeeper in the world, as confirmed by the FIFA “The Best” award won at the end of February. His way of being, on and off the pitch, attracts attention.
Now, and as she did during the World Cup, she’s revamped her haircut again. In the Arab lands she painted her hair with the Argentine flag on the left side of her head. In Argentina you took advantage of her stay to go to Dany Ale, the hairdresser who takes care of the whole team, and asked him for a cut with a special dedication, a star on the side of her neck.
On the Instagram account of the hairdresser you can see the player from Mar del Plata wearing his new look that he will officially present this Thursday.
However, the star in her hair won’t be the only one Dibu will show off in front of the thousands upon thousands of fans who will be at the Monumental to enjoy Argentina’s match against Panama.
In the boots he will use in the game there will also be references to the conquest of Scaleneta. On one side there will be the three stars, while on the other, and next to the Argentine flag, there will be the sentence: “World Champion 2022”.
Like most Argentines, Dibu can’t stop thinking about the World Cup or reuniting with his people. They explain it this way in the AFA: “He called everyone. He said he couldn’t wait to be in the countryside to play those two friendlies. And now he’s drunk, he’s back in control”.
Source: Clarin
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