This Monday, the Uruguayan striker Jonatan Álvez arrived in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina, who spent the last year with Atlético Nacional, where he played 50 games between the League, Copa Colombia and Copa Libertadores, scoring 10 official goals and two more in friendlies. . The attacker will play in this 2022 with Unión de Santa Fe, a team led by his compatriot Gustavo Munúa, signing his contract with the ‘tatengue’ team for one year.
Álvez arranged his departure from Nacional, a team with which he had a contract until January 2023, apparently the player had rescinded his contract for an amount close to one hundred thousand dollars, with which the Antioquia team got rid of a very important salary charge in a player who was not going to be taken into account this season, in addition, the green team releases a foreign quota thinking of some incorporation in this transfer market that is still going on for more than a month.
Amid criticism, injuries and a streak of goals in the 2021 Colombia Cup that Nacional won, the Uruguayan player had more grays in his second experience in Colombian football, after having been in Junior de Barranquilla in 2018 where he played 22 games between League and Copa Libertadores, scoring just two goals.
With the departure of Álvez to Unión de Santa Fe, Atlético Nacional completed a list of 12 players who left the club for this season: Alex Castro (Uruguayan National), Geisson Perea (Pachuca from Mexico), Brayan Córdoba (Once Caldas), Bryan Rovira, Jonathan Marulanda (Tolima), Yéiler Goez (Santa Fe), Andrés Sarmiento (Vizela from Portugal), David Agudelo (Free), Gianfranco Peña (To be defined), Jair Mena (Llaneros), Johan Hinestroza (Portland Timbers from the MLS).
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED Correspondent
Medellin
En Twitter: @juanchoserran8
