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The Colombian professional soccer transfer market has been busy in recent days. All national football teams are seeking to strengthen themselves in the best possible way to be competitive for what will be the start of the Betplay-1 League and the international tournaments in which they will participate.
Some teams such as Nacional, DIM, Junior, América de Cali, which are part of the list of “the greats”, are those that have given the most people to talk about during the beginning of the year due to the names they have confirmed and those that are speculated that could reinforce their squads.
One of the footballers who generated the most echo was the Antioquian midfielder Alexis Zapata, who is 28 years old and has just had a very good season with Emelec of Ecuador. The name of the countryman was associated with Atlético Nacional. There were even those who confirmed that his arrival at the green box was a fact.
However, that version fell apart on the night of Sunday, January 7, when it was confirmed that Zapata, who debuted as a professional soccer player at Envigado FC in 2013, had signed with another Colombian great: América de Cali.
“He wears red! Alexis Zapata arrives to reinforce the Scarlet midfield in 2024. Welcome to La Pasión de un Pueblo! “He trilled the scarlet box on his X account (before Twitter). It was after 10 at night, but the news generated a stir on social networks.
The fans of the scarlet team celebrated the arrival of the player who, ten years ago, when he became known in the Heroes’ Quarry, generated such a sensation for his talent that he was shortly bought by Udinese in Italy, a club he joined in 2014. and in which he did not have much opportunity, so he was loaned to Sassuolo in 2015.
For their part, Nacional fans, who were excited to have this “star” reinforcement on their team, showed their discontent because they could not sign him. Zapata, who between August 2015 and the end of 2016 played for Perugia in Italy, arrived at the Cali team as a free agent after having ended his relationship with Emelec.
Zapata joined Joel Graterol, Óscar Hernández, Edwar López, Michael Barrios, Nilson Castrillón, Jeison Palacios and Alexis Zapata as reinforcement of the Cali team for 2024, the year in which they will not only face the local tournament, but will also face Alianza Petrolera looking for a place to get into the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana.
The Antioqueño is remembered in Creole football for the good time he had for Millonarios in 2017, a team with which he was champion in the closing tournament. Between 2018 and 2019 he was in Envigado, a team with which he debuted and then left for the Ecuadorian league, in which he was from 2020 until the end of last year.
Alexis has 195 games in his career as a professional soccer player. In them he has scored 33 goals and given 11 assists in the six teams he has been in (America will be the seventh).
2024-01-08 17:13:57
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