It’s official: Enzo Pérez returns to Estudiantes de La Plata

It’s the bomb of the market. Enzo Pérez will play for Estudiantes de La Plata. After leaving River, after 6 and a half years, the man from Mendoza returns to Pincha, where he was champion of the Copa Libertadores in 2009. The official announcement was made by the La Plata club through its social networks.

“We wait for you and welcome you. Enzo Pérez is a new player from Estudiantes who begins his third cycle in the club. The last hero of Mineirao is back home”, they wrote from the club in the post sent to the one who they accompanied with a photo of the player and a phrase with a play on words: “Enzo’s things instead”.

And a few moments earlier they had also published an image with an illusory photo in the field, in which on a table that had a reserved sign, there was a plate, a glass, cutlery and a bottle of wine. And the Copa Libertadores was also looming below. “Are we waiting for someone? Just in case, are we reserving a place for them?”, the post reads.

Thus, Juan Sebastián Verón, Enzo’s teammate who together won the Libertadores in Mineirao in 2009 by beating Cruzeiro, had the pleasure of repatriating the central midfielder.

However, getting to this moment hasn’t been easy at all for Verón and his teammates. Less, from one day to the next. This seduction operation has been going on for more than a year and a half, although only in mid-2023 did it begin to seem more possible: when in La Plata they learned that the chances of Enzo not renewing his contract at River were very low. true, they sped up to be able to see the photo they dreamed of so much.

From the vice president himself to idols – including his former teammates in the historic 2009 Copa Libertadores – like Mariano Andújar, they were the ones who ate the driver’s head to make him turn around.

Pérez knew he had Estudiantes’ offer on the table. But before defining his future, she was waiting to see if any possibility from abroad materialized, especially that of Inter Miami, for which his representative had worked. However, when this opportunity seemed to be approaching, it did not materialize.

The other was to go to Deportivo Maipú, the club from which Enzo left and where he wants to retire. But, having not been promoted to the First Division (Mendoza’s team lost the final of the Redoubt with Riestra), that return was postponed.

Then Pérez advanced with Estudiantes. Last week the talks became more formal and on Tuesday the agreement was signed. And this Wednesday Estudiantes announced it. At 37 years old Enzo returns to an institution where he was very happy. After realizing his lifelong dream, that of playing for River, a club he is a fan of, he returns to Pincha.