Orbelín Pineda, the new Celta reinforcement, waiting for a quota of extra-community

After his training in Querétaro and his time in Chivas de Guadalajara and Cruz Azul, The 25-year-old midfielder will join the Vigo team in January when an extra-community place is released.

Orbelín Pineda Alvarado will become this European winter in the sixth Mexican player to act in the LaLiga season, after the president of Celta de Vigo, Carlos Mouriño, confirmed that the 25-year-old midfielder will join the Galician club’s squad in January when he free a place of extracommunity.

Pineda will be a partner of his compatriot Nestor Araujo, and will be added to those already installed Hector Herrera (Atletico Madrid), Andrew Saved, Diego Lainez (Betis) and Jose Macias (Spanish).

The 25-year-old midfielder, who has 42 international appearances and six goals with the ‘Tri’ jersey, will have his first experience outside of Mexico and it will also be good news for the Mexican coach, the Argentine Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino who will be able to count with a more complete player for the next World Cup year.

“We have to wait to have a vacancy to be able to register it. We have the entire month of January to register it, but we hope we can do it before”

Carlos MouriñoCelta de Vigo coach

“You have to wait to have a vacancy to be able to register it. We have the entire month of January to register him, but we hope to be able to do it sooner ”, Mouriño commented to La Voz de Galicia about the situation of Pineda, who has the Brazilian Thiago Galhardol, to the peruvian Renato tapia and the Argentine Franco Cervi currently occupying the three non-community positions.

“The withdrawal depends on the players and their agents, it does not depend on us. We hope to be able to solve the problem and then we would be very happy ”, added the president and main shareholder of the Celts who, however, ratified the landing of Pineda in his institution, which is not part of the Cruz Azul preseason in Cancun.

The ‘Maguito’ will arrive in LaLiga with eight titles in his individual record: four with the Chivas de Guadalajara (Supercopa MX 2016, Copa MX 2017, Liga MX 2017 and Concachampions 2018), three with Cruz Azul (Supercopa MX 2019, Liga MX and Champion of Champions Trophy 2021) and one with the Mexican National Team (Gold Cup 2019).