The Paraguayan, whose pass is owned by Barcelona Sporting Club, no longer has space in the team of DT Fabián Bustos.
The Cerro Porteño club had been looking for Williams Riveros since “the July market” of 2021. The Paraguayan defender, whose pass belongs to Barcelona Sporting Club, does not enter the plans of the Canarian team next season and in his future the Cyclone appears as the main option, recognized the directive of the Asunción team.
Riveros “He is a player who was always interested in the teacher (Francisco Chiqui Maple), which in the July market we saw as an option”Declared Víctor Agüero, Cerro’s manager, who is listed on the capital club’s website as vice president of legal affairs and external relations.
“It couldn’t be at that time. Now, apparently things have aligned and we will probably close with him, “added the leader in conversation with the Paraguayan platform. GEN, of the Nación Group.
The Paraguayan press has published that Riveros has yet to sign with Cerro, which would happen this fortnight.
“Riveros, who celebrated Christmas in Paraguay, He will travel to Ecuador in the next few days to define if he will be loaned or terminate the contract, a scenario that could accelerate the arrival at Azulgrana “, published ABC on December 29, stating that Cerro will take over the services of the 29-year-old defender.
Riveros, one step away from closing its relationship with Cerro
While, D10 noted on December 30: “In the absence of the contract signing and the official announcement, Williams Riveros is a new Cerro Porteño player for next season. The defender will arrive in Barrio Obrero from Barcelona in Guayaquil, on loan, for one year ”.
Riveros joined the base of Fabián Bustos’ squad in 2021. At the domestic level he played 25 games (2,179 minutes), all as a starter and without being substituted, according to the statistics page of the Professional Football League of Ecuador (LigaPro); scored two goals. He also played the Copa Libertadores, an international tournament in which Barcelona reached the semifinals.
The Paraguayan, questioned last season for his errors behind and the decline in his performance in recent months, he was champion with the canaries in 2020 (29 games, two goals), the year he arrived in Guayaquil from Delfín (Manabí). With cetaceans, where he met Bustos, he was also crowned in the country, in 2019. In Ecuador he landed for the first time in July 2018.
Riveros started the two games in Barcelona against Cerro in phase 3 of the 2020 Copa Libertadores, both with a victory for the bullfighters, 4-0 in Asunción and 1-0 in Guayaquil.
Since July 2021, when the Cyclone was already interested in the defender, he was preparing to play with Barcelona the second phase of LigaPro Serie A and the round of 16 of the Libertadores against Vélez. (D)
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