Da Silva’s new player arrives from Europe and brings experience to the midfield.
Eder Álvarez Balanta
Photo: Taken from Instagram @americadecali
By:
Futbolred Editorial
June 27, 2024, 08:11 a.m.
América de Cali presented one of its stellar reinforcements for the Betplay II League 2024 and continues to add troops to the cause of Jorge ‘Polilla’ Da Silva.
The bad balance of the first semester, without home runs in Liga Betplay I and eliminated by Alianza from the Copa Sudamericana, has been left behind and the scarlet club has added a top-level player, at the level of great signings like David Ospina in Atlético Nacional and Falcao in Millionaires.
“Welcome to the Passion of a People! Éder Álvarez Balanta joins to reinforce the scarlet midfield, the player, trained at River Plate in Argentina and with extensive travel through the Old Continent, has stood out in Basel (Switzerland), Schalke 04 (Germany) and Bruges (Belgium)” , the team announced on their social networks.
Balanta will play in the Colombian League for the first time at 31 years old, as he left directly from the now-defunct Academia FC of the first B to River Plate in Argentina and from there to Europe, where he was part of Basel in Switzerland, Bruges in Belgium and Schalke. 04 from Germany.
Álvarez Balanta arrives with the stamp of the Colombian National Team, where he played 9 matches in the qualifying process and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with José Pékerman.
Promising payroll
Although his beginnings were as a defender, now Álvarez Balanta works in the midfield, where he will have as teammates or as internal competition men like Luis Alejandro Paz, Harold Rivera, Franco Leys, Josen Escobar and Jader Quiñones,
América will play a preseason friendly against El Nacional this Thursday, at 7:00 pm at the Atahualpa Olympic Stadium. On Saturday, at 10 pm (Colombian time) they will face Cruz Azul from Mexico, at the Ciudad de los Deportes stadium in DF.
