Yan Diomandé says it plainly: Cristiano Ronaldo was always his idol, and now he is following in his footsteps at Real Madrid.
There was a time when he couldn’t even afford a jersey with his name on it. He admired it from afar, pointed it out in shop windows, and perhaps saw it worn on TV a thousand times without being able to have it close to him.
“I am very proud to play for the club where my idol played. I couldn’t even buy his jersey, and now I play for Real Madrid.”, Diomandé confessed.
A simple sentence that sums up an entire life of sacrifice—that of a boy who dreamed of a jersey and ended up wearing the entire crest.