By Jorge Hernandez
06 Nov 2023, 04:15 AM EST
German Canoa scorer that many remember from his time in the Liga MXreached the highest point of his career this weekend, at win the Copa Libertadores, his most important trophy so far.
The former player of the Tuzos of Pachuca and the Club Leon He lived a dream season with Fluminense, since, at 35 years old, he established himself as the maximum network breaker of the 2023 edition of the Libertadores Cupscored a golden goal for his team, as he forced extra time and put them on the road to victory, in addition to helping his team lift the trophy for the first time in their history.
It is worth mentioning that, despite his talent, the striker has a hard time winning titles and until this weekend he had only won some regional championships in Brazil and a Colombian Cup with Independiente de Medellín.
But this was his season. Just shy of turning 36, the naturalized Colombian Argentine soccer player achieved his dream of lifting the Libertadores in an incredible way: scoring a great goal and accumulating 13 goals in the competition.
The striker’s mark is no small achievement, since he scored almost twice as much as the second place in the individual scoring table: Paulinho, who accumulated 7 goals and was the second best in history in a campaign, only below Luizao, who scored 14 in 2000 with Corinthians.
“The predator” He arrived in Mexico in 2015 to reinforce the Tuzos, He brought impressive numbers from Colombia, after playing for Independiente de Medellín for 3 years and scoring 54 goals.
He arrived with great fanfare as the “killer” of the area that he is; however, andn Pachuca did not perform as expected and was loaned to León after a season in which he only scored 5 goals.
Subsequently, with the emerald set He spent a year and a half, during which time their productivity increasedgetting 15 goals.
After this he returned to the Tuzos for a second attempt, but it was worse than the first and he only hit the nets three times.
After this he concluded his journey through Mexico and returned to Colombiawhere he broke it again with 75 goals in two yearswhich earned him a passport to Brazilian soccer, one of the most competitive in South America.
There, he signed with Vasco da Gama where he scored 43 goals, although, despite that, the team was relegated and the player returned to the first division shortly after with Fluminense, a club with which he has scored 81 goals in two years and where he is living the climax of his career in his mid-thirties.
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Fluminense fans attack Boca Juniors before the Copa Libertadores final