2024-07-09 13:50:25
The team, which has Fabio Cannavaro as coach, highlighted Pizarro as “one of the best prospects in South America.”
Promising striker Damián Pizarro was officially presented as a new player for Udinese in Italy, after saying goodbye to Colo Colo last June.
The Italian team, which in the past bet on Alexis Sánchez and Mauricio Isla, paid USD 3.5 million for 70% of the transfer of the 19-year-old attacker, in a contract that will run until June 2029.
The Friulli team highlighted the arrival of Damián Pizarro, stressing that “in accordance with the tradition of Udinese, always attentive to world scouting, He is one of the best prospects in South America, and not just in his position.”
“Now the time has come for him to make the big leap to Europe to wear the black and white shirt and grow in an Udinese that is enriched by another youngster of great value and potential”added the cast that has the historic Fabio Cannavaro as coach.
Along with this, they recalled his emergence in 2023, where he scored “7 goals at just 18 years old, in 22 league games and also playing 8 games in the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana and 7 in the Copa Chile.”
Regarding the possible debut of Damián Pizarro as a striker for Udinese, they specified that the team’s preseason begins on July 8, to leave for Austria 10 days later to play a series of friendly matches.
It should be remembered that the sale of the attacker generated a crisis in Blanco y Negro, where Aníbal Mosa questioned the payment model for Pizarro’s transfer, accusing that “of the 3.5 million that had been talked about, only one million dollars will come in in October.”and the other two and a half million will be paid until 2027.”