The American team exercised the option to retain him for one more season and the Ecuadorian will play his fourth season at the club.
The Seattle Sounders of the US MLS reported this Wednesday that the Ecuadorian Xavier Arreaga will remain in the team for the 2022 season, like the Peruvian Raúl Ruidíaz and the Colombian Jimmy Medranda.
The team explained in a press release that exercised the option that he had in each player’s contract to retain them for one more campaign.
Thus, the former Barcelona SC player will remain in the US team for the fourth season in a row, in which he reached the league title in 2019.
The 27-year-old Ecuadorian defender He started in 25 of the 26 games in which he participated in 2021 and converted two touchdowns. His numbers with the Seattle Sounders are 54 games, two goals and one assist.
In turn, he has played 13 games with the Ecuadorian team, in which he debuted on November 20, 2018 when he played the 90 minutes of the victory of La Tri 2-1 over Panama.
Raúl Ruidíaz
Peruvian Raúl Ruidíaz signed for Seattle in 2018, after his successful stint in Mexican soccer in which with Morelia he was scoring champion twice.
The Peruvian has not been out of tune in Seattle, since in the four seasons he has been the top scorer for a total of 50 goals in 79 gamesHe was also a fundamental part of the squad that won the League title in 2019.
In 2021, the 31-year-old attacker scored 17 goals in 26 games and led his club to finish second in the western conference and reach the quarterfinals of his division.
Jimmy Medranda
Colombian defender Jimmy Medranda will live his third season at the Sounders, for which he signed in 2020. The Mosquera native started 15 of the 25 games he participated in in 2021 with Seattle.
Medranda has played nine seasons in MLS and before Seattle he belonged to Nashville SC and Sporting Kansas City, with whom he was for seven years.
Seattle also announced the permanence of Josh Atencio, Jordan Morris, Abdoulaye Cissoko of France and João Paulo of Brazil. (D)
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