Former Boca Juniors and Tigre forward, Facundo Colidio, a new addition to the River Plate squad, underwent a medical check-up and will sign a four-year contract this weekend to join training.
The player from Rafaela, who was wanted by Boca after his good season in Tigre, accepted the call of MartÃn Demichelis and in the last hours River bought him one hundred percent of the economic rights owned by Inter of Italy.
In this way, the 23-year-old striker will be the second reinforcement of the recent Argentine soccer champion team, after the arrival of Ramiro Funes Mori who signed his contract this week.
Both Colidio and Funes Mori will only be able to play in the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores, on August 2 and 9 against Inter de Porto Alegre in Brazil, when the transfer market opens and they can be registered with the AFA.
The club will pay five million dollars for the total of the tab, and will impose a termination clause of 25 million for the striker who has just been one of Tigre’s figures throughout the 2022-2023 season, in which he played seventy games with ten goals and 10 assists.
Colidio came out of Rafaela’s quarry and in 2014 Boca bought him for $12,000, to add him to the lower ranks, but he did not make his debut in the First Division since Inter took him in 2019 in exchange for eight million dollars.
The striker then went on loan to Saint Truden in Belgium, where he played for two seasons, before being loaned to Tigre, where at the end of his contract he chose to play for River despite his first contacts with Boca.