Marcelo Díaz

Who is Marcelo Díaz?

Marcelo Alfonso Díaz Rojas is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for Swiss Super League club FC Basel and for the Chilean national team as a midfielder.

Díaz came through Universidad de Chile youth academy, and was promoted to the first team in 2004, when he was 18. Since then he played 162 matches with the club and won five titles. He was an integral part of the team that won three consecutive national championships and the 2011 Copa Sudamericana, the club's first international title.

He made his international debut in January 2005, playing for Chile at the U20 level. He made his adult international debut six years later on 11 November 2011, when the coach Claudio Borghi called-up him for play the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification games against Uruguay at Centenario and Paraguay at Chile.

Mainly as a central midfielder or a deep-lying playmaker, he can also play as a defensive midfielder or attacking midfielder.