Boca suffers from the absence of central defenders at the beginning of 2023. Apart from Marcos Rojo’s severe injury and the sudden departure of Carlos Zambrano, they joined to the infirmary Nicolás Figal, Gabriel Aranda and Renzo Giampaoli. For this reason, the Football Council continues to search for a leader, several names have been mentioned and it seems that they found the right one in Alexis Duarte.
Through a silent negotiation, the Boca leadership has been in contact with the environment for several days of Duarte, young central marker of Cerro Porteño and considered one of the great bulwarks of Paraguayan soccer, which is why the Cyclone does not plan to release him easily.
According to the numbers that circulated among those close to the xenize leadership, the Barrio Obrero team is asking for close to four and a half million dollars for el Pulpito, who has in his hands other proposals of Brazilian and Mexican soccer. In Asunción they assure that the efforts are under way and they are optimistic that the native of Itauguá can wear the blue and gold shirt.
Duarte would provide several solutions for Negro, since he can act as the first and second central marker. The young defender is category 2000, but he has several battles over him with Cerro Porteño both domestically and in the Copa Libertadores. He was even called up by Guillermo Barros Schelotto to the senior team following having been part of the entire red-and-white youth process.
Before and following Hugo Ibarra, the Boca coach, expressed that “we know that the most important thing we have to see is the back, that of the centrals. We have injured, Marcos (Rojo) is injured, (Gabriel) Aranda was injured, Nico Figal the same, Carlos (Zambrano) we know the situation… It is a place that we have to fill in the best way and I think the Council is taking care of it of that”, the leadership of the xeneize moves to find a reinforcement and Duarte seems the chosen one, following the negotiation for Lucas Merolla, one of the figures of Huracán, did not advance.
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