In the last days it has been possible to know, through the local and international press, the presumed interest of one of the teams of the French Ligue 1 by one of the figures America of Calimore specifically the Venezuelan goalkeeper Joel David Graterol Nader.
The team that would be interested is the Football Club Lorient from the Brittany region of France, which plays in the first division and during the 2021-2022 season, which ended a few days ago, was 16th in the table, 4 points above relegation.
This interest alerted more than one fan of America, who would not welcome the departure of one of the team’s leaders, especially due to the situation in which the institution finds itself of not being able to sign new players, despite having another good goalkeeper in the squad, as is the experienced Diego Novoa.
From the institutional side, the only official pronouncement was a statement from the largest shareholder in America, Tulio Gomezwho stated that “No, I haven’t even stopped balls at that, we’re very short on payroll and are we going to let it go?”, he said in one of the Antena 2 programs.
At the moment Joel Graterol will continue in the scarlet cast, where he has a contract until next year, and this Wednesday he returned to training with the last part of the group, the one that was missing to enter the team’s preseason for the preparation of the second semester.
Juan Andres Arias Arias
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
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