River expect Salomón Rondón, the Venezuelan Michael Jordan fan who once scored a goal assisted by Lionel Messi

As we finalized the details less than a week before the start of the Pro League, River awaits the latest reinforcement and with it they will say goodbye to the transfer market. This is the Venezuelan striker Solomon Rondon, which will arrive in the country between Wednesday and Thursday. that way, Martin Demichelis He will have his last reinforcement and add hierarchy for the attack.

Rondon is located in Spain, where you train alone with a personal trainer. Although, when he joins River, he has a special conditioning job waiting for him, for which, perhaps, he will miss the first appointments, according to what he has been able to learn clarion. And once the attacker arrives in the country, after undergoing a medical examination, he will sign free until December 2024 with the option to extend the bond for another year.

Rondón, 33, will thus find himself with Demichelis, with whom he shared a team at Málaga in Spain, where the Venezuelan played between 2010 and 2012. And so Micho will have the main alternative to Miguel Borgia as center forward.

Either way, they could also play together if the River coach decides to at some point. Although obviously in that case he should use another scheme, different from the 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-4-1 which he will apparently propose according to what was seen in the preseason friendlies. .

Just Borja, who will have important internal competition with Rondón, spoke a few days ago about the arrival of the Venezuelan. “We hope he will come and help us because we know he can help us out. Welcome be. I think he has impressive qualities to be here”said the Colombian.

The last experience of the Venezuelan was in Everton English, club in which he hasn’t had much continuity and has agreed to terminate the contract. Indeed, He started just two gameshe completed the 90 minutes in one and scored no goals.

In any case, Rondón has an impressive resume: he scored 165 goals in a career in which he played for various European clubs (Las Palmas, Málaga, Rubin Kazán, Zenit, West Bromwich, Newcastle and Everton) and a spell at the Dalian Pro , in the Chinese Super League, at the time they brought several figures to the tournament in that country.

Rondón has throughout his career 493 games played with 165 goals and 46 assists at club level. To this we must add his long career in the Venezuelan national team, in which he played 95 matches and scored 38 goals. And he is the all-time top scorer of the Venezuelan team, to which he arrived after deciding to play soccer and thus fulfilling his mother’s dream. Maitana Gimenez.

It’s that Rondon I played basketball too much and had as an idol Michael Jordan. In fact, the jersey he chose for his debut in the First Division was the ’23’ in honor of the Chicago Bulls legend, considered the best basketball player in history.

Born in Caracas, Rondón has a special relationship with Argentinaeven if you’ve never lived in the countryside. Mother of him, pregnant with him, shouted the goals of Diego Armando Maradona due to the fanaticism generated by watching him play.

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And in 2012, the year in which Rondón moved from Málaga to Russia’s Rubin Kazan, in a million-dollar transfer, had the pleasure of playing for Lionel Messi’s team. I eat?

Of course, he was her partner in a friendly charity call in Miami Master of the soccer world. And not only did he block with La Pulga in the ‘Friends of Messi’ team against a team from the ‘Rest of the World’, but he also received a central assist from Leo and scored a header.

Many more times they met face to face in matches between the Argentina national team and the Venezuelan national team. And Rondón remembers one in a very special way. That of the friendly match in Madrid on 22 March 2019, when the Venezuelan forward, after 5 minutes, opened the scoring for Vinotinto’s 3-1 win against Lionel Scaloni’s team.

Rondón aimed diagonally towards goal, leaving behind an advanced Argentine defense, controlled a long pass with great hierarchy and broke the goal with a bombardment. The goalkeeper who suffered from that Venezuelan firepower was Franco Armani, who will now be one of the Venezuelan’s new teammates who will try to make history in River and Argentine football.