He ate the older ones at the table. Bearing number 7 to Real Madrid like Raymond Kopa, Emililo Butragueno, Raul, Cristiano Ronaldo and Vinicius Junior, Mariano Diaz left his small brand at Real Madrid. Certainly its sporting impact was low for the one who has spent eleven years under the Madrid tunic for only 84 matches played (12 goals and 3 assists). Nevertheless, he will have filled his trophy cabinet with the 2017 and 2022 champions leagues, La Liga in 2017, 2020 and 2022, the UEFA 2020 supercup, the 2017 and 2023 club World Cup, the Spanish Supercoupe 2020 and 2022 and the Spanish Cup 2023.
Sportingly, its best passage was mainly on the side of Olympique Lyonnais during the 2017/2018 season. Unmissable with the Gones, he had scored 21 goals and delivered 6 assists in 48 matches. Enough to push Real Madrid took advantage of its buying priority in order to dame the pawn at Seville FC and recruit it for 21.5 million euros after only one year in Lyon. A transfer that will not have worked for Mariano Diaz as the next on the side of Seville FC. Freely joining the Andalusians in the summer of 2023, he will experience a complicated passage with only 13 appearances for 0 goal and 1 assist. Since then, he has been free since July 1, 2024 and finds himself unemployed.
End of a year of unemployment for Mariano Diaz
A long period of inactivity when he nevertheless returned to Dominican selection on March 26 against Puerto Rico (2-0) where he even scored a goal. Absent from the Gold Cup, he has been training in the Basque Country for several weeks in the Deportivo Alavés. “”The striker Mariano Díaz Mejía, with a brilliant career in elite football, will train in the Deportivo Alavés and will participate in the training of the first team during this initial phase of the pre-season. The player, who has several national and international titles to his credit, began his training today at the Ibaia sports city and will share his first training session with the rest of the workforce this afternoon», Could we read on July 14th. The fifteenth of the last exercise of the Liga therefore put it on the test and it goes pretty well for the 32 -year -old scorer.
According to Marcawe are close to continuity in this collaboration between Mariano Diaz and the Deportivo Alavés. Coach Eduardo Coudet is a fan of what Mariano Diaz shows for the moment and an agreement has been reached for the extension of this idyll. This Monday morning, the Deportivo Alavés is expected to announce the signing of a two -year contract for the native of Première de Mar. reassuring his physical condition, Mariano Diaz trained alone and took advantage of an alignment of the planets. Indeed, striker Joaquin Panichelli left for Strasbourg for 16.5 million euros while Kike Garcia signed at the Espanyol de Barcelona. For his part, Asier Villalibre should go on loan and there will only be Toni Martinez as a pure center-forward. A chance for Mariano Diaz who should be his main competitor in this position.
