The man most envied by most of the men who follow football is Loris Karius, a goalkeeper who made a splash in the most important game of his career and at which point his career foundered, he lived all these years – and it’s already been five – serving the penalty of an unexcused failure and the splashes of that fiasco they precede him whenever he reappears on the public stage. However, the man most envied by the men who follow football with its annexes and connections has been experiencing his revenge for some time, and it is a revenge that – curiously – did not take shape on a football field, as one might have expected.
The man was a goalkeeper – we said this – and we use the past tense because today that is not the role he is recognized for. The man’s name is Loris Karius and he is the boyfriend of Diletta Leottaindeed, since the two announced it on social media, our man is something more: he is the father of the child who is carrying his partner. Like in a fairy tale.
Loris Karius turns thirty in June. He stopped playing five years ago, on May 26, 2018 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. That is, let’s be precise: he still continues to play, but she knows very well that he stopped playing that night there. The Champions League final was played between Real Madrid and Liverpool. Karius was the goalkeeper for Liverpool. He did all kinds of things, missed two easy interventions, the ball slipped out of his hands both times and favored the goals of the Spaniards. In jargon, they are called ducks. Karius made two clamorous ducks, the kind that remain etched in the memory for a long time. And that they can mark a career.
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Real Madrid won that Champions League, Liverpool lost it with those unfortunate ways that were charged precisely to the good Karius. The fool was planetary. Karius explained that he had previously taken a blow to the head and that in short, he had conceded the two goals because he wasn’t lucid. Despite this, the sentence had already been issued: Liverpool had lost the final because of him. Since that night Karius’ career has derailed. He played with Besiktas in Turkey, then at home with Union Berlin, now he is in force (so to speak) at Newcastle. Correction: it is not true that he has played, if we exclude Turkey, for three years now he has put together a handful of games.
He’s still in great shape though, he’s close friends with Justin Bieber (makes his resume), he is undoubtedly a handsome boy with the sculpted physique of an athlete and tattooed as per the catalog and above all he has found a way to get people talking about him again. He met Diletta Leotta in England, where the TV presenter had gone to improve her English. They hit it off right away. A love story was born, their son will be born in the autumn. And for Loris Karius, the leap from goals (conceded) to gossip was immediate.
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