Union Magdalenaone of the historical teams of Colombian soccer, seeks in this 2023 season of BetPlay League being the protagonist and forgetting their bad moment that they lived in the closing of the previous tournament, where they did not have their best performance and finished in box 12 with 29 units.
Seeking to seek improvement for the start of the Colombian soccer season, Unión Magdalena brought forward its preseason facing international teams such as Trujillanos from Venezuela, a match that ended up tied at one goal.
However, a few days after his debut in the BetPlay League against Atlético Huila, on January 25, Unión Magdalena had one of his worst news, since his scorer and figure, Ricardo ‘Caballo’ Márquez, was injured after suffering a fissure in his foot and will be out for approximately two months, although its evolution will mark the exact return time.
???? Ricardo ‘El Caballo’ Márquez (25) was injured and is low in #UnionMagdalena: has a fissure in the foot. Preliminarily it does not require surgery, but it would be lost from 6-10 weeks, depending on the evolution ????????
???? The striker was close to going to #Chaves ????????, but everything stopped pic.twitter.com/fYi4VndJp3
— Pipe Sierra (@PSierraR) January 22, 2023
In this way, the 25-year-old forward who was close to going to European football to play with Chaves from Portugal, will be low for Unión Magdalena, who had the footballer to lead the attack for this season.
In 2022, Ricardo Márquez managed to play a total of 16 league games with Unión Magdalena and contributed 9 goals, being the top scorer in the cyclone.
