Juan Fernando Quintero with River Plate and Edwin Cardona with Boca Juniors want to be protagonists

Read in English: SUPERCLÁSICO ARGENTINO: DUELO DE DOS COLOMBIANOS

With the arrival of Juan Fernando Quintero to River Plate, and with the permanence of Edwin Cardona in Boca Juniors, the Argentinian League will have matches of great level thanks to the presence of these Colombian midfielders that make the difference with their performances.

Juan Fernando Quintero

First of all, Juan Fernando Quintero is a midfielder of great skill that creates soccer and generates assistances for his teammates aiming to score goals. Furthermore, he is an excellent kicker and this is one of his principal strengthens.

Quintero is a new player in River Plate. Therefore, he wants to adapt himself to the tactical system of the coach, Marcelo ‘El Muñeco’ Gallardo. The coach likes good game, collective game, and societies with the team during the 90 minutes of every soccer match.

 What are his objectives?

The FC Porto former player had a great performance with Independiente Medellin the last year. Now, Quintero has the opportunity of making the difference with River Plate because his principal challenge is to dispute the World Cup of Russia 2018 with Colombian National Soccer Team.

Juan Fernando has excellent expectations with River Plate. For this reason, he has to create a good complement with Rafael Santos Borre who has had an excellent performance with the t-shirt of River Plate. The Colombian striker has scored important goals for his team.

Edwin Cardona

The day Quintero and Cardona play a soccer match against each other, that game will be attractive because of the skills that they both have with the ball.

On the other hand, Edwin Cardona is a player with great shoot that scores a lot of goals outside of the box. At anytime, he defines the soccer games with his goals. Cardona is very appreciated by the fans of Boca Juniors, who are very demanding with development of the team.

‘Crackdona’ is fundamental in the team that is coached by Guillermo Barros Schelotto. Cardona is the brain in the midfielder, and he creates the options for assisting the strikers. Furthermore, the player always raises his hand and has a lot of skills when he has the ball on his feet.

In total, Cardona has played 13 soccer matches with ‘xeneizes’. He has scored 4 goals and made 2 assistances. Moreover, the soccer player is a great shooter of free kicks, and nobody forgets the goal that he scored with River Plate in Monumental stadium where Boca Juniors won 2-1 in 2017.

Nowadays, Edwin is concentrated with Boca Juniors and his goal is to realize a great actuation with his team. He wants to give triumphs and titles to the fans of Boca. In this season, he has the opportunity of disputing Libertadores Cup that is the principal objective of the season.

Undoubtedly, fans will live an excellent classic soccer match between Boca Juniors and River Plate because both teams have two creative and offensive Colombian midfielders with great conditions and abilities.

The match between Boca Juniors and River Plate will have a Colombian flavor. These soccer matches will have ingredients of happiness and emotions.

LatinAmerican Post | Daniel Cuevas
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