Nelson Évora leaves Sporting and signs for Barcelona – Athletics

After having represented the big three in Portugal, Nelson Évora will now wear the colors of Barcelona. The news was given by the athlete himself on social networks, in a publication in which he shared a photo with the Catalan shield shirt with the message “Life never ceases to amaze me! More than a club, more than a champion! “.

Nelson Évora, let’s remember, left Sporting at the end of this season after the end of the link that united the two games in the last four years. A period in which the 36-year-old won European titles indoors in Belgrade in 2017 and outdoors in Berlin the following year, as well as bronze medals at the 2017 London World Cup, and 2018 indoor, in Birmingham. , without having yet reached the Tokyo’2020 minimum, set at 17.14 meters. That will be your goal for the months until the Games, but everything points to the fact that, even without reaching the minimums, you can qualify through the classification ranking.