August 30, 2024, 3:24 PM
August 30, 2024, 3:24 PM
He Flamengo from Rio de Janeiro announced this Friday the signing of the international Ecuadorian Gonzalo Plata, a new millionaire reinforcement in the middle of the Brazilian football season.
“The most recent red-and-black reinforcement signed until August 29, 2029″, the Rio de Janeiro team indicated in a message on the social network X.
He Left-footed winger, 23 years oldarrives from Al-Sadd in Qatar, where he arrived in mid-2023. He played 14 games with the Qataris this year, in which he scored two goals and provided four assists.
According to local media, the ‘Fla’ will pay in total $9.1 million for his transfer.
Emerging from the notorious Independiente del Valle youth team, Plata had stints in the Real Valladolid from Spain and Sporting Lisbon from Portugal.
Mundialist with Ecuador in Qatar-2022, The striker missed the last Copa America in the United States due to a case of indiscipline.
But the new coach of the Tri, the Argentine Sebastian Beccacece, opened the doors so that the forward returns to the national team, in which he has played 37 matches (six goals, five assists).
Plata is the most recent acquisition of the most popular club in Brazil at the midpoint of the season, after the arrivals of the Argentine midfielder Carlos Alcaraz, striker Michael and full-back Alex Sandro.
Led by former Brazilian coach Tite, the red-and-blacks march in the Fourth box of the Brasileirao and they contest the quarter-finals of the Copa Libertadores and the Copa de Brasil.
