Mexico City /
It would have been the bomb of the century! Though you don’t believe it could play the mythical Juan Román Riquelme in Atlas why Bruno Marioni had praised it as a star addition to Liga MX, but the one condition that had to be met to complete his arrival never materialized.
Riquelme could play in Atlas: the story
This is a football anecdote that has never been told, as Marioni herself said in an interview for the channel South American MX on the YouTube platform, as the Barullo contacted the baker to convince him to try his luck in Mexico.
“It’s the first time I’ve told this. I imagine Riquelme wherever he wants. I was about to become the Atlas sports director the year I retired and called Román. He said, “Yes, you can.” That depended on being a sports director, which I never was, but of course I was looking for Roman to play in Mexico, to break it in Mexico, ” he said.
According to Marioni’s chronology, he retired from Estudiantes Tecos in 2010. Riquelme was a member of Boca Juniors after his European crossing with Barcelona and Villarreal, so the contacts in 2011 would have marked the baker’s adventure in our country, recalling that in the summer of 2012 he announced his “retirement” because he “felt empty”, although he returned with the Xeneizes in February 2013.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.