A Tigers you have to look inside Quarter-finals of the Club World Cup in Ulsan Hyundai, team of South Korea, a country not unknown to felines, because Two elements that played there that left their mark on the club, one for being very good and the other for being one of the most criticized forwards in recent years.
Is about Juninho e Itamar Batista, Brazilians who came to the UANL as reinforcements, but they ran with different luck; they both had in common that they played in South Korea.
Itamar was the longest in that country, starting there practically since 2003 to 2004 Chunnam dragons, in 2005 it became Pohang Steelers and from 2005 to 2006 in the Suwon Bluewings.
After that adventure in South Korea, Itamar arrived in Mexico with Jaguares de Chiapas, where he stayed only in 2008-2009, since Tigres signed it at the request of Daniel Guzman; However, in 2011 he asked to leave, he no longer felt well with the club due to criticism, lack of confidence from his coach. Ricardo Ferretti, in addition to being attacked for its nightlife and poor performance, with 23 goals in 54 games.
He emigrated to Qatar, where he stayed with Al-Rayyan in 2011-2012, before arriving at Flamengo in 2012; finally retires in 2017 with Londrina Esporte Clube.
Juninho was in Brazil in the beginning, from 2002 to 2004 in Coritiba, he went to Botafogo from 2005 to 2007, in 2008 with Sao Paulo, 2009 back to Botafogo, then in 2010 experience the adventure in South Korea with the Suwon Samsung Bluewings, where he only played 11 gamesas Tigres saw him and brought him in as reinforcement for the Apertura 2010, where he remained the leader of the defense, a captain of the team and historically as he is the club’s top-scoring defender with 35 goals.
While retire in 2018, happened technical assistant to Tuca. Now, the cat fans see that Juninho could be Ferretti’s replacement in the future in charge.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.