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It would have been the bomb of the century! Although you don’t believe it, the legendary Juan Román Riquelme could play in the Atlas Why Bruno Marioni had praised her as a star signing in the MX League, but the only condition that had to be met to complete his arrival never materialized.
Riquelme could play in the Atlas: the story
This is a football anecdote that has never been told, as Marioni himself said in a channel interview South American MX on the YouTube platform, since Barullo contacted the Baker to persuade him to try his luck in Mexico.
“This is the first time I’m going to say that. I imagine Riquelme anywhere in the world he wants. I was about to be the athletic director of Atlas the year I retired and called Román. He said, “Yes, it is possible.” That depended on me being a sports director, which I never was, but of course I was looking for Roman to play in Mexico, to break it in Mexico, “he said.
According to the chronology narrated by Marioni, he retired in 2010 with Estudiantes Tecos. Riquelme was a member of Boca Juniors after his European transition with Barcelona and Villarreal, so the contacts in 2011 would have marked the adventure of Baker in our country, recalling that in the summer of 2012 he announced his “retirement” because “he felt empty”, although he returned with Xeneize in February 2013.
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