The father of the Liverpool forward went missing on Saturday night after being taken hostage at a Colombian gas station alongside his wife, who was subsequently found.
In addition to speaking out about his father’s abduction, Luis Diaz has used Instagram to promote a vigil for his father on Tuesday.
The narrative of the Liverpool striker features a photo of his father with the words, “MARCH FOR THE RELEASE OF “MANE” DIAZ.” We provide notice to the whole community at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, October 31, at Cemetery Park in Barranca, La Guajira, Colombia. Light your candle to shine hope’s light and set him free right now.
According to the most recent rumours from the Reds star’s homeland, Colombian officials have been looking for Luis Manuel Diaz by combing through a cloud forest. On Saturday night, while travelling to a friend’s house, Diaz’s parents stopped to fill up their car with petrol. This is how both of them were taken close to their Barrancas home.
Since then, his mother Cilenis Marulanda has been saved and is now secure. That being stated, the elite Jungle Commandos of Colombia have now been enlisted to assist in the operation to return his father uninjured and safely. They are concentrating on what are thought to be the Perija Mountains because they worry his kidnappers are trying to sneak him across the border between Venezuela and Colombia.
The star player for Liverpool, Diaz, has spent the most of this terrifying story in Merseyside and has received public backing from several influential club members. Reds assistant coach Pep Lijnders told the reporters on Tuesday afternoon: “We try to support him now as much as we can, but there are a lot of circumstances beyond of our control.
“I believe and feel that the players are the only ones who know we’re doing the right thing at Liverpool Football Club. Saying what we’re doing for Luis Diaz is not for me to discuss.
“As long as he is aware that we pray and follow all the proper procedures. The entire club is rooting for him. When he feels that way, it feels right to me.
“Everything is being done by the authorities. The most crucial thing that his family is doing well, from what we’ve heard, is that they’re trying everything.”
Before Saturday’s 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest, Reds manager Jurgen Klopp had a similar opinion, talking about how the issue has affected the whole team.
“It was the hardest situation I have ever been in while we were playing. It was a very challenging day that had a positive outcome,” Klopp asserted.
“Winning the game and maybe diverting his attention a little bit was the best thing we could do for our brother; everything else was extremely exceptional in the worst sense. You would assume that after playing more than 1,000 games, you have seen it all, but you haven’t.
“However, ‘Lucho’ and his family are the focus of this, not us, and we all hope and pray that everything works out for them. The only thing we could do today was fight for their brother, and that’s what they did. We will do what we can do, and we have already done in the club.”