While Boca Juniors focuses on the last two games before the mid-year break, a first for the pass market shook the “Xeneize” world. PresidentJuan Román Riquelme, accelerated the arrival of Gary Medel and, in the next few hours, he would become the first reinforcement of the team led by Diego Martinez.
As reported TyC Sports, Riquelme advanced in the last hours for Medel and the defender is one step away from putting on the “blue and gold” jacket again. If there are no changes in conditions, “Pitbull” will arrange his separation from Vasco Da Gama in Brazil and will travel to the country to sign his contract until December 31, 2025.
Gary, who played for La Boca between 2009 and 2010 and even scored two goals in a match against Riverhas a contract with the Rio de Janeiro club until the end of 2024. However, in the last matches he did not participate due to personal issues and both parties are seeking to end the relationship.
It is worth remembering that, in 2020, the 36-year-old footballer He had already been close to Boca, when the idol sought him out as soon as he became vice president. “I talk a lot with Riquelme. I talk once a week, I’ve talked to him quite a bit. We talk about everything, about football, about family… Boca is always something important in South America, in the world, and obviously I would be delighted to return,” the Chilean had pointed out at that time, when he still belonged to Bologna in Italy.
Even Román himself had named the footballer who emerged from the Catholic University in dialogue with tyC sports months ago: : “We speak with many footballers, with most of them I still have a good relationship. We were waiting for the freedom of a place with Gary Medel, with whom I have a good lifelong relationship and I told him to go play somewhere else because we did not have a place. He’s dying to play here, but we didn’t have the chance. He knows that I love him very much.”
Finally, the flamboyant idol and president will have the great pleasure of reinforcing the squad with whom he shared the field for two years in Boca. Currently, the foreign quota is occupied by four players: Luis Advíncula, Marcelo Saracchi, Miguel Merentiel and Edinson Cavani, plus the Venezuelan Jan Hurtado, who will return to the club in a few weeks after the loan in the Quito League. In this way, Medel will be the sixth footballer with a non-EU passport, although everything indicates that Hurtado will leave again.
Medel’s numbers in Boca Juniors and the goals against River Plate
In a season and a half, between 2009 and 2010 with this shirt, Medel played in total 48 official matches with 7 goals (2 of them against River in a remembered “Superclásico” in the “Bombonera”) and 1 assistalthough he could not become champion.
In addition, he went through his national team (he played in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil), Universidad Católica de Chile, Seville from Spain, Cardiff from Wales, Besiktas from Turkey; Inter, Bologna of Italy and his last step through Vasco Da Gama.
