By Grabiel Garcia
Dec 28, 2023, 07:04 AM EST
Salomón Rondón will head to Mexican lands after the experienced Venezuelan forward has decided to end his time with the legendary Argentine First Division team, River Plate, where scored a total of 10 goals in 35 games played.
The new destination of the tall number 9 of the ‘Vinotinto’ team has a new home and it is in Mexican soccer, where will wear the colors of the Tuzos del Pachuca. The separation of the Venezuelan attacker was carried out quite quickly and after River Plate’s last match against Central Rosario all the details were finalized.
The journalist specialized in the transfer market, César Luis Merlo, made the news official through his official X account. The only thing missing is the official announcement of the team.
🚨[CONFIRMADO] Salomón Rondon is Pachuca’s new reinforcement. He arrives with the pass in his possession and with a contract until December 2025. 👇👇https: //t.co/w2vJKfONuW
— César Luis Merlo (@CLMerlo) December 27, 2023
Rondón had to return to the institution part of the money he already had for the second year of his contract, which ended in 2025; His pass was acquired by River Plate last summer for a sum a little more than two million dollars.
According to statements by the player himself to the media in the mixed zone after some games, The adaptation of the player and much more of his family was something that did not happen in the best wayeven though Rondón did everything possible to ensure that this did not affect him, especially after having lived more than 15 years in Europe.
Martín Demichelis, his coach and former teammate at the time from his time at Málaga in Spain, More than once he made reference to family extra-sports problems. that Solomon and his family were experiencing, in press conferences.
All this added also to the fact that the beginning of ‘Salo’ in the Millionaire club was not the most regular, and on the contrary the pressure from some River Plate fans, It was not the perfect combination for the Venezuelan player’s stay to be a little longer and more stable, so the departure was a matter of time and it finally happened.
Salomón Rondón, 34 years old, is recognized as perhaps the best striker in the entire history of Venezuelan soccer and is also the top scorer of the Vinotinto National Team with a total of 41 goals to his credit.
His career in European football has been quite long and competitive, which is why the Tuzos del Pachuca They will have a player with a nose for goal, who knows how to play as a team and does the little things They don’t show up in the statistics, but they do the little things to win games.
During his time at West Brom in the English Premier League between 2015 and 2018, ‘SaloGol’ experienced the most prominent stage of his career scoring a total of 28 goals, distributing 10 assists in 120 official matches. The Tuzos del Pachuca will be the 12th team in Rondón’s career, who also has experience and many goals in leagues in countries such as Venezuela, England, China, Russia and Spain.
Rondón lived his best stage at River Plate at the end of his first year where he was a much more regular player in Demichelis’s starting 11 and He was also recognized for scoring the most unorthodox or refined goals.which earned him the affection of many fans in Argentina who always supported him from the beginning.
His arrival in Mexico represents a fairly important and important addition to Liga MX, and Pachuca trusts that Rondón will help them from day one to compete at the highest level; Tuzos fans wait with great enthusiasm and hope that Rondón’s future goals will translate into victories and many joys that will take them to the top of Mexican soccer and obviously to championships.
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