Barcelona SC and Liga de Quito exchange players: Michael Hoyos will be Albo and Carlos Rodríguez from the Canary Islands this 2022

One of the most anticipated outings these days in Pomasqui already has a solution. The Uruguayan central defender Carlos Rodríguez, who maintains a current contract with the Quito League until December 2022, was loaned for a season to Barcelona SC, which for its part agreed to lend the white team at the US-Argentine-Ecuadorian offensive midfielder Michael Hoyos, also for a year. The exchange of players was announced Monday night through the social channels of the two clubs.

“For the Special Football Commission of the University Sports League, it is very gratifying to confirm that we have reached an agreement with Barcelona SC, for the incorporation of the player Michael Hoyos to our squad, who is linked to our institution for the 2022 season, with a option to purchase their sports rights in favor of the League ”, indicates a statement from the U.

“Additionally, we inform that Carlos Rodríguez, player of Uruguayan nationality from the records of our club, will be linked to Barcelona SC for this season, through a transfer of federative rights with an option to buy”, it is added.

In this sense, minutes later, Barcelona SC reported the hiring of Rodríguez “for a season on loan (with a purchase option at the end of it), in an operation in which Michael Hoyos is on loan for one year to the Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito ”.

Rodríguez (31 years old), who arrived in the Ecuadorian league in 2019 from Peñarol, with a one-season contract with a purchase option, which made the League effective in 2020, had revealed on Monday morning his intentions to dress in yellow this 2022.

“I had a call from Fabián (Bustos), we talked about getting to know each other and how I am as a person. He told me there was a poll, that he was interested in me. He asked me if I wanted to go. Hopefully it can happen, “he said in an interview with the program. First time from Sports area.

In the 2021 course with Peñarol he participated in five matches of the South American Cup, in eight of the Apertura tournament of the Uruguayan first division and in thirteen of the Clausura tournament, of which he was crowned champion on December 4. In addition, Paco Rodríguez celebrated the title disputed at the end of the year by the Apertura (Plaza Colonia) and Clausura (Peñarol) champions.

The negotiation, which seemed motivated by the Canaries, included the departure of Hoyos (30 years old), who until Monday morning worked at the rhythm of his teammates under the orders of Fabián Bustos in the yellow preseason that takes place at the stadium facilities Monumental.

Forward and right winger, Hoyos joined Barcelona SC for the 2021 season after signing a 4-year contract. He played 23 games throughout the year, 15 for LigaPro Serie A, 7 for Copa Libertadores de América and 1 for Supercopa Ecuador. The operation for a multifragmentary clavicle fracture forced him to stop from August to November and he could only perform in the last four days of the second phase of the national championship.

On paper, Rodríguez arrives at the Monumental to occupy the place that would be left by Paraguayan Williams Riveros, who this year is not part of Bustos’ plans and has been linked to Cerro Porteño in his country. Meanwhile, Hoyos lands on the Rodrigo Paz to cover the plaza of the Paraguayan Luis Amarilla and would fight for Djorkaeff Reasco. (D)