Comparisons are often an invitation for added pressure, which is why members of FC Dallas are doing all they can to avoid them with recently-acquired midfielder Pablo Aranguiz.



Aranguiz is just 21 years old, doesn’t have a goal or an assist to his name and has only appeared in four matches for FC Dallas. Despite all of that, he’s drawing comparisons to one of the best players to ever don an FC Dallas jersey in Mauro Diaz.



Stat line aside, the resemblance is uncanny.



Diaz is listed as 5’8”. Aranguiz checks in an inch shorter and both guys hover around 140 pounds. Even their paths to FC Dallas bring flashbacks, the club acquiring a 22-year-old Diaz from Chile’s Union Española five years ago and then turning back to the same place to find the 21-year-old Aranguiz last month. While they never established a personal relationship, Aranguiz was part of the academy at Union Española when Diaz was starring.



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