The former Eagles goalkeeper stated that the board was slow to extend his contract and so he left for Italy.
Guillermo Ochoa left the America on the winter market after failing to reach an extension deal with the board and returned to Europe to sign with the salernitana from Italy.
With the seahorsesMemo has played a starter since his arrival in Salerno 6 matches by League, where he totaled 17 annotations. However, the goalkeeper of the Mexican national team was awarded the jJanuary player of the month by the Garnet board, product of his stellar performances in goal and his two consecutive appearances on the team of the week in the A series.
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In an exclusive conversation for TUDN, Ochoa assured that the Americanist directive was catching on In reaching an agreement to extend his contract and in the absence of guarantees, he chose to analyze other options outside of Mexico.
“As time went on, no agreement was reached with America, they let a lot of time pass before they could agree on anything. Then I started talking to my people and I said, ‘You know, the situation here is not very clearly, let’s go look into other matters,” said the five-time World Cup player with Mexico.
“Offers came from different places, of course from South America, North America, Europe and here too. From other countries, from Spain, from Greece, but the one from Italy convinced me the most,” said the born man. in Guadalajara.
“No agreement was reached in Mexico and with this project, well, I took it straight away. I didn’t want to wait all January to see what options were out there because the World Cup is over and I don’t want to spend so much time like that on vacation to rest. I like to be in the rhythm and they came with the intention that I would come because the goalkeeper was injured and there was a way for me to play from the start,” Memo emphasized.
Source: Goal