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It would have been the bomb of the century! Even if you don’t believe it, the legendary Juan Román Riquelme was able to play Atlas because Bruno Marioni had put it in perspective as a star signing in the MX League, but the only condition that had to be met to materialize his arrival never crystallized.
Riquelme was able to play Atlas: the story
This is a football anecdote never told, as Marioni himself said in an interview for the channel MX South American on the YouTube platform, since the Aldarull contacted the Baker to convince him to try his luck in Mexico.
“It’s the first time I’m going to explain this. I imagine Riquelme in the place of the world she wants. I was about to become Atlas sporting director the year I retired and called Roman. He said, ‘Yes, it can be.’ It depended that he was a sports director, that I never was, but of course that I looked for Roman to play in Mexico“For him to break it in Mexico,” he said.
According to the chronology narrated by Marioni, he retired in 2010 with Tecos Students. Riquelme played for Boca Juniors after his European passage with Barcelona and Villarreal, so the contacts in 2011 would have marked the adventure of the Furner in our country, remembering that in the summer of the year 2012 announced his “retirement” because he “felt empty,” although he returned with the Xeneizes in February 2013.
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