Nicolás Peranic’s injury, which prevented him from finishing the season defending O’Higgins, led the club to decide to go for a new goalkeeper when the regulations allow it.
In this case, there are two names that resonate in the Monastery. Both have experience in First Division, they have worn the jersey of the national team and of teams such as Universidad de Chile and Colo-Colo. In addition, today, both play in the Second Professional Division.
Cristóbal Campos, current player of San Antonio Unido, is one of the players targeted by the Rancagua leadership to cover for Peranic and thus join the team managed by Víctor Fuentes as soon as possible. The same goes for Nery Veloso, current goalkeeper of Fernández Vial who, in previous seasons, played for U and also for Colo-Colo.
After the match in Talca, where the Capo tied with La Calera, there were clear signs that one of the two is approaching the Monasterio Celeste. The coach himself commented after the press conference that “I know they were doing the paperwork to go for another player,” which indicates precisely that the arrangements are being made because, as he said, “we have to protect ourselves.”
However, Fuentes himself stressed that in the case of Campos, “he has experience”, a point in favour of the goalkeeper of the club of the Timón and the Gaviota. In that aspect, of course, Veloso surpasses him by far, since at 37 years of age he has a long sporting career.
Meanwhile, sports manager Pablo Calandria said that “we have to evaluate whether we consider it a contribution to the team,” but Campos or Veloso are among the “options that exist, from Primera B or Segunda Profesional, but we have to evaluate.”
Meanwhile, President Pablo Hoffmann added that in the case of Campos “it is more than a rumour”, but he retracted the statement and clarified that “it is not even enough to be a rumour”. However, the director usually does not confirm such information before the sports department does so.
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