The historical goalscorer of the Bolivian team was a wish of Gustavo Quinteros to reinforce the Cacique’s lead in mid-2021. When everything seemed well on track for his signing, the altiplano decided to stay in Cruzeiro and left the club that hoped to close it with desire .
Year 2021, Colo Colo was already a clear contender for the title showing a showy game that scared away the ghosts of the traumatic 2020 campaign where the relegation was fought to the end. However, Gustavo Quinteros warned that the team lacked a goal and that is why he insisted on the need to sign a striker to fill the void left by Esteban Paredes. His chosen one was an openwork name: Marcelo Moreno Martinshistoric goalscorer for the Bolivian team.
The DT had directed him in the altiplano team and knew what he could give to the Cacique. It seemed that his signing was going well, but he did not prosper due to Cruzeiro’s refusal to release him while he was fighting not to be relegated to Serie C in Brazil. A couple of months later he ended up signing for Cerro Porteño.
Your visit to the Monument
The player arrived at the Monumental Stadium together with Ciclón de Barrio Obrero to face Curicó Unido for Phase 2 of the Copa Libertadores. There he addressed what was his failed transfer to the albos in conversation with redgoalwhere he told his reasons for staying in Belo Horizonte.
“I was very close to arriving at the time. I have great respect for Gustavo, I know him very well, we work together in the national team, he knows my character and my football, how I work and that, regardless of whether I play or not, I am supporting the team. It could not. At the time, Cruzeiro needed me and so did my coach. The club did not let me come and now I defend the Cerro Porteño shirt. But very happy to come here to Chile and come to the Colo Colo stadium,”
The altiplano revealed a later talk with Gustavo Quinteros and opens up the option of coming in the short term “I have a contract until December, but if they don’t renew me, the doors will be open to see and analyze. If Colo Colo and Gustavo love me, there we can see. I spoke to him later, I have great respect for him, I know he works very well. We will continue to maintain that friendship and respect, because one earns it by working and playing, scoring goals on the pitch. I send very big greetings to him and that he does well this year, “he closed.
His performance in Paraguay
Although Marcelo Moreno Martins is a player who enjoys good prestige at the South American level, his goalscoring contribution in Cerro Porteño has not been as expected either. The player has barely seven wins in 38 games and today he is not even the undisputed owner.
