The fan of Lima Alliance He will always remember 2020 with great unease, a season with a sports debacle that led him to relegation to the Second Division, but thanks to a TAS ruling he was able to remain in League 1. However, before this resolution, there were several players who were close to donning the Blue and Whites, but seeing the difficult panorama that their intimates had, they gave up going to La Victoria.
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For example, the blue and white team had already verbally agreed to elements such as Alexis Cossío and Diego Minaya, who finally gave up making the agreement and went to play for teams in the interior of the country.
However, the most remembered case is Alex Valera, then a forward for Deportivo Llacuabamba who had been standing out in the local championship. In addition, he had been summoned by Ricardo Gareca and scored a goal against the Victorians in a match at Villa El Salvador.
The Pomalca-born striker finally did not want to make the verbal agreement with his intimates effective because he did not want to play in League 2 and as soon as he received the offer from Universitario de Deportes for the 2021 campaign, he did not hesitate to accept it.
Alex Valera with a Deportivo Llacuabamba shirt.
At the time the decision could have been correct, because with the “U” he even played the Copa Libertadores and scored important goals, however, Alianza Lima would be the national champion after finally staying in League 1 thanks to a TAS ruling.
Today the also forward of the Peruvian National Team does not have a good time, because in Universitario he is not considered as he does not come training normally while his Al-Fateh transfer is resolved. The top scorer in Liga 1 2022 with 12 goals will not play against Deportivo Municipal and there will already be three games in which he will not be with the ‘merengue’ team.
Alliance Lima vs. Sporting Cristal: day, time and channel
Alianza Lima and Sporting Cristal face each other this Sunday, July 31, from 3:30 p.m., at the National Stadium. The game will be broadcast by GOLPerú (channel 14 and 714 HD).