Salomón Rondón has signed and had his first training session at River: what is Demichelis’ goal-scoring hope like physically?

Salomón Rondón is now officially a River player. He has signed a contract until December 2025 together with the club president, George Britoand this Monday morning he had his first workout at the Ezeiza RiverCamp, where he was very well received by Martín Demichelis and his new colleagues.

the Venezuelan had no problems work alongside the campus and, as he learned clarionthe technical staff he saw it he saw it physically well. And in addition to the fact that they have prepared a special physical and football preparation work for him to adapt him to the pace and intensity of Argentine football, they think the debut will be sooner rather than later.

Rondón, who joined on a free transfer after dropping out for Everton in England, Demichelis has known him since they were team-mates at Malaga in Spain more than a decade ago.

Apart from the fact that, in principle, Rondón will start behind the Colombian Miguel BorgiaGiven that Demichelis started his journey at River with a single centre-forward, it is not excluded that they can play together. This was stated by the coach himself in a press conference last week, when, in this regard, he declared: “Borja and Rondón can play together, I have no doubts. They have an important hierarchy and physique”.

The Venezuelan striker will have the pleasure of playing in Argentine football, of which he has been a fan since he was a child thanks to the enthusiasm of his mother, a fan of the Diego Maradona.

Born in Caracas, Rondón has a special relationship with Argentina, even though he has never lived in the country. His mother, pregnant with him, screamed Maradona’s goals because of the fanaticism she generated by watching him play.

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

Sure, he was her partner in a charity friendly in Miami called the World Soccer Master. 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.