{"id":469993,"date":"2023-11-17T05:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469993"},"modified":"2023-11-17T05:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:40:05","slug":"diaz-scores-twice-as-colombia-defeat-brazil-2-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/diaz-scores-twice-as-colombia-defeat-brazil-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00edaz scores twice as Colombia defeat Brazil 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Diaz led Colombia to a comeback triumph against Brazil in an emotional game as his dad watched him live from the stadium after being freed by his kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds forward netted twice in 5 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half minutes to inspire his country to a comeback in Barranquilla\u2019s 2026 World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luis Diaz&#8230; wow.<\/p>\n<p>He scored two goals for Colombia against Brazil in front of his dad who was released by kidnappers just a week ago.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCFootball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C7aTPcqH12\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/C7aTPcqH12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCMOTD\/status\/1725425179826745458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Luis scored his 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the match in the 75<sup>th<\/sup> minute to tie 1-1 after Martinelli netted the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the game in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half to give the halftime lead to Brazil. Diaz pointed to the stands where his father was sitting, and the broadcast showed his teary-eyed dad celebrating his son&#8217;s goal with his arms raised.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz admitted he had experienced &#8220;tough moments&#8221; over the last month but added: &#8220;Situations make you strong and brave, and I think that\u2019s just a game, not just a game but life.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luis Diaz scored twice for Colombia last night to beat Brazil! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4<\/p>\n<p>Just look at his dad&#8217;s reaction&#8230; \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y2XDLXHOxK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Y2XDLXHOxK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballontnt\/status\/1725435391430291946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I dedicate the triumph to the people who supported us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brazil and Real Madrid superstar Vinicius Jr left the match with an injury in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Diaz led Colombia to a comeback triumph against Brazil in an emotional game as his dad watched him live from the stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469994,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17518,16933,22087],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17897,19951,22088],"acf":{"announce":"His father watched him from the stands, and Luis played phenomenally.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469995,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469993\/revisions\/469995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469993"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469993"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}