2024-08-27 03:01:00
Rayo Vallecano confirmed the signing of Colombian James Rodriguezwho will return to the Spanish La Liga after having played for Real Madrid between 2014 and 2017. Rodriguez, the best player of the last Copa America of the United States, He had been in the Spanish capital for a few days to finalise his contract.
Rayo assured that he signed like this “his star signing in what is its most special season, celebrating 100 years of history; of bravery, courage and nobility.” For the Madrid team, James “represents the values of the club” and the player has “a desire to dream and do great things.” For his part, and in statements released by the club itself, James, 33 years old, said that “I am a player who likes to win and I hope to be able to do things well in this important year for this beautiful club. Eager to dream and do great things“, he said after the agreement was confirmed.
Almost a week ago, His name was often mentioned as a possible signing for River. However, the millionaire president Jorge Brito He ruled out that possibility so as not to create false expectations. At that time, James was already negotiating with Rayo the arrival that was finalized this Monday.
James Rodríguez was born on July 12, 1991 in Cúcuta (Colombia) and made his debut in 2006 in the Colombian club Envigado. In 2008 he moved to Banfield where he won his first championship title in the Apertura 2009 and became the youngest foreign player to debut and score a goal in the Argentine Primera División. In 2010 he made the leap to Europe to settle in the Porto and in 2012 it became Mónacowhere he stayed until after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
In 2014 he began his first cycle at Real Madrid which lasted until 2017 cHe was loaned for two seasons to Bayern Munich. After returning to Madrid for the 2019/2020 season, Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti, one of his coaches at Real Madrid, took him to Everton from England, where he was only in the 2020/21 season. In 2021/22 he went through Al Rayvan of the Qatari league, in 2022/23 for the Olympiakos de Grecia, in 2023/24 in Sao Paulo from Brazil and now returns to Spanish football to play for the modest Rayo Vallecano.