Why do they call Emiliano Martínez Dibu, one of the emblems of this Argentine team?

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One of the great revelations of the Selection during the cycle staircases is the appearance of Emiliano Martinez as goalkeeper. From the 2018 World Cup in Russia with FrancoArmani under the three sticks, the albiceleste team did not have a permanent goalkeeper in the starting line-up, until Dibu emerged as one of the great figures with high level performance.

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After years in Arsenal English and a great step borrowed in Getafe from Spain, Martínez began to raise his figure and managed to be considered one of the great archers of European football.

With his arrival at astonville of the Premier League English, Dibu has earned a place in the hearts of Argentine fans thanks to his high level of football and his talent for saving penalties. “Look How I Eat You, Brother” was the famous phrase that everyone repeated after the penalty shootout against Colombia in the last Copa América. But where does his characteristic nickname come from?

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The origin of Dibu’s nickname

As explained by Martínez in the partisan media “The Devil’s Cauldron” from Independent, club where the goalkeeper trained, the origin of his nickname is related to character from a television series of the nineties

It is that as a child I was very similar to Dibuprotagonist of the television series Telefé “My family is a drawing”especially for the freckles that he had on his face and the dyed hair.

When the show premiered on television in nineteen ninety sixMartínez was very small, he had just four years old. This favored his relatives, who connected him directly to the character.

The plot of the series is not complex at all: a cartoon boy lived with a family made up of humans of flesh and bone.

Source: Clarin

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