After several twists and turns, Emiliano Vecchio signs and extends his relationship with Racing

After several days of uncertainty and rumors of all kinds circulating in and around Avellaneda, the skilled midfielder Emiliano Vecchio He signed the renewal of his contract with Racing this Friday and will continue under the orders of Fernando Gago.

“It’s nice to have more time for yourself!“, announced the club on social networks together with an image of the footballer posing in the first team shirt and accompanied by the president, Víctor Blanco, and the sports secretary, Ruben Capria. Vecchio extended his relationship with the club until December 2024.

This Friday, it was Gago himself who spoke at the press conference about the possible renewal, who had shown interest in keeping him at the club for the Racing season.

“He has to recover. He has to get back to that pace of competition. It has been sitting for a long time, we will see how it will come back. You have to work on it from a footballing point of view, from a physical point of view, so that the knee responds well… There are many preliminary factors before playing. The same him and the same lol (Aiming). They’re both in the same situation.”

Since his arrival at Academy In mid-2022, the footballer with the last time at Rosario Central only played 14 meetings where did he turn three goals and gave four assists. Up until now, his tenure on the team has been impacted by two injured which has long marginalized him from the field: a muscular effort (50 days, 9 games) ea rupture of the cruciate ligament (259 days, 17 matches).

However, when it was his turn to play, Vecchio one of the greatest pilots and playmaker of the Academy. Clearly Gago keeps a player of the hierarchy in the squad but must take it calmly in order not to fall back into injuries.