Felipe Pardo, the 31-year-old forward from Chocó, returns to Deportivo Independiente Medellín after playing for Toluca and Pachuca in the Mexican league.
Del Rojo had left in 2013 for Europe, where he played in the Portuguese, Greek and French leagues. In Greece, with Olympiacos, he won two Superleagues in 2016 and 2017, for which he played in the UEFA Champions League that year with an outstanding performance.
Pardo was a figure in the Medellín title in 2009, so his signing is expected to be well received by fans, who have been unhappy with this year’s campaign.
More hires
In an interview with EL COLOMBIANO, the club’s president, Daniel Ossa, assured continue managing the hiring for the next season, but ruled out the return of Juan Fernando Caicedo, describing the possibility more as “an exploration”, since the soccer player has a current contract with Deportes Tolima.
Likewise, he hinted that most likely they can count on Andrés Ricaurte, with whom the subject is also very advanced. “He has a contract with Medellín, we need to announce it; however, it leaves a window open, because when a player acts abroad, it is already difficult for him to return and it is more difficult to reach an agreement on the economic issue ”.
The fact of seeing that managers are moving It attenuates the nonconformity of the fans, who hope that a team will be assembled that will be the protagonist in the local league and that will end the streak of five consecutive championships without entering the group of eight.
Likewise, the followers of the Antioquia team hope that Medellín has a worthy presentation in the South American Cup 2022, a contest to which he achieved his classification after being crowned champion of the Betplay Cup 2021.
Ossa stressed that he remains focused on completing the links before the first week of January, although it was clear that there will be no more than three. The priority, he indicated, is to achieve the arrival of a nine.
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