By: Kike Frias
Rodolfo Pizarro leaves Inter Miami and the MLS under the banner of being “sacrificed by Lionel Messi”, but in the analysis, The performance of the Mexican midfielder in the last four seasons has been poor and his separation from the club on the coast is fully justified.
Pizarro, already 29 years old and with the weighting of “promise” left behind, has almost completed his arrival in Greece for play with AEK Athens, where he will meet Matías Almeyd againa, a coach who in the past knew how to bring out his best football.
Just that class and vertigo on the pitch that made Pizarro famous is the one that the player has not shown in recent years.
Since he accepted the offer of the nascent Inter Miami franchise in 2020 and left Rayados de Monterrey, he has only provided eight assists and scored the same number of goals in almost four years.
Already in his last campaign in Liga MX (2019) it was noted how his level was declining compared to his contribution with Chivas de Guadalajara, but he was still in the orbit of the Mexican team and was even seen as part of of the call for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, although in the end he was not in the process that Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino was leading at that time.
Pizarro’s agent knocked on the door of the Flock but The board did not agree with a possible return despite its performance in other years. The reason: indiscipline.
One of the leaders of the Guadalajara team, José Luis Higuera, revealed in 2022 that Pizarro had a “serious situation” of indiscipline that the Vergaras (Jorge, deceased, and Amaury) did not like.
A brief internship again at Rayados in the form of a loan did not help him recover his best version. Finally Pizarro leaves through the back door of an Inter Miami that he leaves last in the Eastern Conference and to which he never offered the level that he promised at the time of his signing. Rodolfo Pizarro and his curious conversation with Gerardo Martino in an Inter training session Miami
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