Alario in his presentation with Markus Krösche. (@eintracht_esp)
After several rumors tying him to different teams, Lucas Alario accepted his transfer EintrachtFrankfurt. The 29-year-old Argentine, who had polls from River and Palmeiraswas able to fulfill his wishes to continue in European football in search of the continuity necessary to be called up for the team selected by Lionel Scaloni for Qatar 2022.
The transfer was closed in ca. six million euros and his contract will last until June 2025. In addition, he will join another former River, Rafael Santos Borre. The Santa Fe native has joined a team that has just won the Europa League – Europe’s second biggest tournament – and will play the Champions League.
The former River e Colón comes from working at Bayer Leverkusen, where he stayed for five years – he arrived in 2017-. In total he played a total of 164 games, scored 58 goals and distributed 16 assists. However, he never found the desired continuity, on the contrary it was an option coming from the substitutes’ bench.
The particular presentation of the Eintracht Frankfurt
The German team welcomed him via social media in a creative way. They presented it by recreating the famous FIFA video game and showed that the “twentyone” It will be the number you will use in this new challenge.
The nod to the river
Emulating a very famous phrase he uttered some time ago Marcello Gallardo, the official account of Eintracht Frankfurt in Spanish, posted a tweet showing Alario and Santos Borre together. Both forwards were instrumental in the Doll in the Millionaire process.
The other Argentine who would join the Eagles
Nicola Castro, a 21-year-old midfielder who plays for Newell’s, would agree to join the German squad. The transaction would close four million eurosand in this way he would have his first experience in European football.
Source: Clarin
