Striker Mauro Zárate, who last March terminated his contract with Juventude, from Brazil, will return to Argentine football after agreeing to join Platense, which will present him officially next Tuesday.
“Striker Mauro Zárate, with an extensive and successful career, is a new player for Club Atlético Platense for the next Binance 2022 Tournament of the Professional League”, announced Vicente López’s institution through its official communication channels.
Along with the image of the footballer with the different shirts he has worn so far, the statement added: “After his last stint in Brazilian football, he arrives at our club as a free player and with the clear objective of contributing his entire hierarchy to help “Squid” to meet his goals for the next semester”.
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In addition, the extensive report stated: “After signing his contract, Mauro Zárate will return to the country this Monday and will start working with the Omar De Felippe squad starting Tuesday (next), where he will be officially presented as a member of the great family. squid’.
“In this new cycle, it is a pride to have the experience and hierarchy of a player of the Zárate category, to whom we wish the greatest success that -without a doubt- will be those of our institution,” the notice concluded.
The attacker, born in the Buenos Aires town of Haedo, on March 18, 1987, has an outstanding career that began in Vélez Sarsfield, where he recorded three cycles; to then go through Al Sadd, from Qatar; Watford, West Ham, Birmingham and Queens Park Rangers, from England.
He also performed for Inter, Lazio and Fiorentina in Italy; and Al Nasr from the United Arab Emirates. In July 2018 he joined Boca Juniors, a club that was the last he played in Argentina, since in 2021 he left for América Mineiro, from Belo Horizonte.
Last summer, once he left the Minas Gerais entity, Zárate managed to join Juventude, which also participates in the Brazilian championship, a club with which he dissolved his relationship a month later, when he alleged that he wanted to return to Buenos Aires to be “close to your family”.
The as effective as controversial striker, who in his record counts having been U-20 world champion with the Argentine team in Canada 2007, accumulates 131 goals in 472 games, in addition to having won 6 titles.
The striker joins a team led by DT Omar De Felippe, which was also reinforced by the arrival of midfielder Carlos Villalba and winger Juan Cruz Esquivel, both from Talleres de Córdoba.
Platense will debut in the LPF championship facing Godoy Cruz de Mendoza at home, on Saturday, June 4, at 7:00 p.m., for the first date of the contest.
With information from Telam
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