Eduardo Vargas arrives in Belo Horizonte to sign for Atlético-MG | athletic-mg

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Upon his arrival, Vargas was received by journalists and onlookers in the Confins Airport lobby. OR give found that El Gallo paid Mexico’s Tigres less than $ 2 million for the athlete’s release. Vargas had a contract with the Mexicans at the end of this year. Atlético-MG management believes that, with the arrival of the Chilean forward, the hiring cycle for the season is over.

Eduardo Vargas arrives at Galo with the endorsement of Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli. It will be the eleventh reinforcement of the coach, who took over the team in March. The player was left out of the call of the Chilean team for the next qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup.

This Sunday, at 6.15pm (Brasilia), Atlético-MG will face Flamengo, in Mineirão, for the 20th round of the Brazilian Championship. Vargas, who is still waiting to be regularized by the new club, will make his debut only next Saturday, when Galo will face Corinthians, in São Paulo, after Brasileirão.

Before Vargas, only in the “Sampaoli era”, were Léo Sena (on loan from Spezia, from Italy), Keno, Marrony, Bueno, Junior Alonso, Alan Franco, Mariano, Eduardo Sasha, Everson and Matías Zaracho hired. Throughout the season, Atlético-MG announced 19 reinforcements.

Now, Galo has six foreigners in the main group: Junior Alonso, Alan Franco, Savarino, Dylan Borrero, Matías Zaracho and Eduardo Vargas. According to the regulations of the Brazilian Championship, the only competition that the club still competes in the season, only five can be entered per game.

Vargas is an old acquaintance of Jorge Sampaoli. They were champions of the South American Cup with Universidad de Chile. Still under the command of the Argentine, but in the Chilean national team, the player was champion and top scorer of the 2015 Copa América. In Brazilian soccer, Eduardo Vargas played for Grêmio in 2013, when he played 37 games and scored nine goals.