the Paraguayan club Cerro Porteno presented his new reinforcement this Thursday, the Bolivian striker Marcelo Martins Morenowho will wear jersey 9 of the Asuncion team. Martins Moreno, a native of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, arrived in Paraguay with a contract for the next two years, after passing through the Brazilian club Cruzeiro. In a press conference, the president of Cerro Porteño, Juan José Zapag, considered the hiring of Martins a “very important bet”, of whom he highlighted his “professional and human quality”.
In his turn, the leader of the scoring chart of the current South American qualifier for the World Cup thanked the fans for their welcome and expressed his interest in continuing to add titles for his new team. “The truth is that I didn’t think twice,” admitted the player, who appeared before the press accompanied by his wife and daughter, about his decision to choose Cerro Porteño. He also expressed the “good” expectation that playing a Copa Libertadores produces in him and confessed that he “would love” to win it. “Where I go, I am champion and it is thanks to a lot of teamwork, a lot of personal work, a lot of dedication. And if this championship is missing for us, we are going to look for it,” said the center forward.
Martins, 34, started in the Petroleum East in his country, and has played in teams such as the Brazilian Flamengo and Gremio, as well as the Chinese Cangzhou Mighty Lions and the Ukrainian Shakhtar Donetsk, among others. Last December, Cerro Porteño became champion of the Closing Tournament in Paraguay by drawing 2-2 against Guaraní.
