Alfredo Morelos is expected to legally resolve his situation with Santos of Brazil to be able to continue playing in the green of Antioquia, while Boca Juniors is close to confirming Marino Hinestroza. The green debuts this Saturday in the Betplay 1-2026 League.
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Yes in Boca Juniors There is expectation for the arrival of Marino Hinestroza, who would wear the number 18 on his back, the same one that his compatriot Frank Fabra used until he was free at the end of the year from the Argentine team, in National Athletic Anxiety grows due to the continuity of Alfredo Morelos and the arrival of new reinforcements.
Morelos was not seen in the recent preseason video that the purslane club uploaded to its social networks, which generated discomfort among the fans of the Paisa team.
As reported by journalist Emiliano Radd, on Espn’s SportsCenter and who has more than 20 years of experience reporting on the Xeneize club, Hinestroza, a 23-year-old winger who for a long time wanted to have Juan Román Riquelme on his team, reached an agreement with said team for four years and for a figure close to 5 million dollars.
Pending official confirmation, Marino would be the sixth foreigner – number allowed – in Boca, along with Edinson Cavani (Uruguay), Carlos Palacios (Chile), Williams Alarcón (Chile, and pending acquiring Argentine nationality), Ander Herrera (Spain), and Marcelo Saracchi (Uruguay, already on loan at Celtic in Scotland).
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Meanwhile, in Nacional, which had sold 16 thousand season tickets as of Wednesday morning, men like Kevin Cataño (coming from Real Cundinamarca), Samuel Velásquez (Tolima), Milton Casco (River Plate), Nicolás Rodríguez (Orlando City) and Emilio Aristizábal (Fortaleza) are already seen in work, and club leaders such as David Ospina, William Tesillo, Mateus Uribe, Edwin Cardona, Marlos Moreno, Andrés Sarmiento, among others, but the fans are asking for more hiring in the face of a semester where they have challenges on a national and international level.
In reference to Morelos, 29 years old and who has 32 goals and 16 assists with the purslane team, the forward has legal differences with Santos over the payment of salaries. Nor would it enter the plans of the Brazilian club, which has Neymar and now Gabriel Barbosa “Gabigol”.
Given his situation, the athlete would have filed a lawsuit with FIFA to allow him to be a free player. That response has been slow to arrive, and, therefore, it is uncertain if the player can compete from this Saturday in the debut of the Antioquia team in the Betplay 1-2026 League.
From Nacional, which Diego Arias will continue to direct after winning the Betplay Cup final against Independiente Medellín last December, Joan Castro, the Uruguayan Camilo Cándido, Kilian Toscano, the Ecuadorian Billy Arce and the Uruguayan Facundo Batista left.
A few days after starting the League against Boyacá Chico (Saturday, 6:20 pm at the Atanasio), Nacional is preparing with the purpose of regaining prominence, since at the international level it will have as a challenge the Copa Sudamericana, in which it will have Millonarios as a rival in the first round on March 4, to which Radamel Falcao García returned.
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