In 2011, the University of Chile dominated Chilean football and the continent. Jorge Sampaoli’s team won the local championship twice and the Copa Sudamericana. That’s why the Blues, with the aim of continuing on the same path, bought the Ecuadorian defender Eduardo Morante in 2012, who had a string of good seasons in Emelec.

Students paid $2 million for 80% of his passing, a historic figure, considering he was the second most expensive foreign player in the history of Chilean football, surpassed only by the $2.2 million Colo Colo paid in 2008 for Macnelly Torres. However, Morante’s performance was far from expected.

Figures of Eduardo Morante in the USA

At that time, the 24-year-old footballer played only 8 games and lived through a real nightmare with injuries that did not allow him to live up to the challenge. Furthermore, in 2022, he made a big revelation in a conversation with the Leyendas program. “I didn’t take good care of myself, I swear. “I really liked the night, the alcohol, the women and it took me away from football a lot.”

UU scored two goals, the first of them on the second date of Clausura 2011 against Deportes La Serena. The Ecuadorian couldn’t hold back his tears after that goal and threw himself on the ground, as a sign of relief for the lack of continuity.

Ecuadorian hell

In any case, he could not win a place in the team and in 2013 he left for the Liga de Quito, where his career could no longer take off and his own debacle began. The footballer himself revealed a few months ago that he was insolvent and could not leave Ecuador after losing a legal claim.

“That year (2013), the woman who took me to Emelec in 2006 and with whom I unfortunately signed a contract, which awarded her 50% of every future sale, filed a lawsuit against me, due to the right to legal representation. I asked her to make a financial settlement, I offered her 50 thousand dollars, which she could pay, but she never agreed and that’s why I’m insolvent and I can’t leave the country,” she told Diario Extra from Ecuador once.

All this caused the players to lose interest in sports. “I entered the court and thought about this legal problem that I could not solve. “I left football disappointed,” he said in the same interview.

What is Eduardo Morante up to right now?

After the legal problem, Morante played for Deportivo Cuenca, El Nacional, Mushuc Runa and Fuerza Amarilla. He stayed at the latter club until 2017, where he decided to retire from football at the age of 29.

Today he works as a teacher in a soccer school with his brother in Ecuador. In this way, he supports himself financially, after the problems completely removed him from his activities, writes AS newspaper. (D)