Although it seemed certain that the goalkeeper from Tolima Aldair Quintana would play the Copa Conmebol Libertadores 2023 with the current champion of Colombia, Sports Pereirathe reality of the transfer market is different and The footballer will remain linked for at least one more semester to Atlético Nacional de Medellín.
The purslane club, together with the 28-year-old goalkeeper and the agency DTSoccer Agency They were in the process of a negotiation to transfer their file for the 2023 season of Colombian professional soccer, but these conversations would not have had much effect in January.
The foregoing could be verified by the sports journalist from Tolima Julian Caperawho reported on his Twitter account that Atlético Nacional would have changed the conditions to allow him to be a free agent with the following message:
Aldair Quintana case: negotiation dropped at this time due to a change in conditions on the part of Atlético Nacional. He returns to training with the Paisa team and will be able to negotiate a pre-contract with any club as a free agent, since his contract expires on 06/30.
Thus, Quintana will be a free agent until June 30, 2023 and would be available on the technical bench of Paulo Autori to face the BetPlay Super League, BetPlay League, BetPlay Cup and group stage of the Conmebol Libertadores Cup as a substitute for the Santander goalkeeper Kevin Mier Robles.
Quintana Rojas arrived at the paisa campus on July 1, 2019 from Atletico Huila. His name would have been in the deck of possibilities of a former team of his (Deportes Tolima), which currently has william cuesta as starting goalkeeper. If an agreement were reached between both teams, the goalkeeper would reach the team from his hometown (Ibagué). after five years of absence in it.
At 28 years old, Quintana sees with positive eyes that Tolima accepts him on its payroll, taking into account that in the 2022 – I campaign with coaches Alejandro Restrepo and Hernán Darío Herrera, the goalkeeper could only play in five of the 18 games in which he was called up in the 2022 BetPlay I League, in which he made gross mistakes in the defeats against Envigado FC, Atlético Nacional, Deportivo Cali and Rionegro Águilas.
With confidence a little more recovered after the rocky start to the season, Aldair Alejandro would be the starting chip in a deck of team options Purslane that has Kevin Mier as a starter along with the goalkeeper Luis Marquinez.
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Since his arrival at National, Aldair Quintana has played 81 games and even managed to be summoned on several occasions to the Colombia selectionbeyond not adding official minutes in Conmebol qualifying games at the hands of the coaches Carlos Queiroz Y Reinaldo Rueda.
It should be noted that heAldair’s professional career began in January 2014 when he was offered by the lower divisions of River Plate in Argentina to join the Deportivo Independiente Medellín youth system. (DIM) In colombia. When Quintana joined the senior team Poderoso in 2015 and was then loaned out in the second division to the old Dépor FC (today Atlético FC Cali); and Orsomarso SC from Palmyra.
It was also sought by the Venezia club of Italy, a team whose sports director and co-owner is the former soccer player from Antioquia Iván Ramiro Córdoba.
Quintana was in the ranks of Deportes Tolima during the 2017 Colombian professional soccer season and a year later he went to Neiva to join Atlético Huila, a club that took over its sports rights for a year, until it was sold to Atlético Nacional.
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