Soccer players, businessmen, and fundamentally a wide sector of national sports journalism, repeat the same justifications when the return of a tricolor player, from Brazil, is accompanied by the word failure.
“They were not patient with him”, “he had few opportunities”, “his teammates did not give him the ball”, “the injuries affected him”, “the press is very harsh”, are the most used pretexts. The truth is that Jhojan Julio joins the recent cases of Mario Pineida and Bryan Cuckoo Angulo among the Ecuadorians who return to the LigaPro without having stood out in the land of Pelé.
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The newspaper Sports Gazeta reports that “Santos formalizes the termination with Jhojan Julio, who returns to LDU, the club that owns the rights of the 24-year-old Ecuadorian.” The note details the reasons for the measure taken by the São Paulo leadership regarding the Quito midfielder and his numbers at the club.
“Announced at the end of March of this year, Jhojan Julio played a total of 21 games with the Peixe (nickname of Santos). However, the performance was not as expected and the footballer lost space during the season. At the São Paulo club, he scored just one goal and gave two assists ”, he refers Sports Gazeta.
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Julio played 14 matches in the Brasileirao tournament, three in the Copa Brasil, and four in the Sudamericana, according to the specialized portal Transfermarkt. Of all those duels in just three games, the Ecuadorian played 90 minutes.
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Eight months without goals
Follow the note from the Brazilian newspaper: “The only goal scored by the former number 8 of Santos was in April (eight months ago), in the 3-2 victory over Universidad Católica (from Ecuador), in the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana . The assists, in turn, occurred in June, in consecutive matches against Athletico Paranaense and Juventude, for the Brasileirao”.
at the auction Sports Gazeta He mentions in his note: “Before coming to Brazilian soccer, Jhojan Julio only played in Liga de Quito. In the Ecuadorian club he played 178 games, scored 27 goals and distributed fourteen assists, in approximately eight seasons.
poor numbers
The case of Julio, in terms of performance and squalid statistics in Brazil, is similar to that of Pineida, who has already returned to Barcelona SC. The right-back (30 years old) played 24 games with Fluminense (only 7 of 90 minutes), 21 times he was on the bench without leaving it, and between October and November he missed eight games due to injury.
The Cuckoo Angulo, at Santos FC, scored five goals in 24 games, according to the Transfermarkt site, which places the 27-year-old center forward with just one full 90-minute duel as a Santos, last May. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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