One of the greatest figures in MLS over the last few years has been the Venezuelan Josef Martinez, who has helped make Atlanta United one of the franchises to keep an eye on every season in the North American league. Heading to the end of the 2022 campaign, the present of South American and the friction with the coaching staff of Gonzalo Pineda indicate that their future is far from the state of Georgia.
Added to this, The current soccer year in the highest category of football in North America presented him with a complicated challenge just in the first weeks of the championship, since he underwent surgery to undergo arthroscopic surgery on his right kneesomething that represented him being far from the fields and having to row once morest the current.
This Saturday Josef Martínez collaborated with a goal but Atlanta United lost to the New England Revolution and definitively said goodbye to their aspirations to enter the playoffs to fight for the second title in the history of the organization of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, as they are tenth in the Eastern Conference with 40 points with only one game to play.
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During the broadcast of the match between Bruce Arena’s Revolution and Gonzalo Pineda’s ‘Cinco Rayas’ squad, TUDN field reporter Michele Giannone, He mentioned that the member of the Venezuelan National Team requested a meeting with the club’s board with the aim of discussing his future at the end of the campaign. Added to this, Felipe Cárdenas that currently both parties are not on the same page.
Did Josef Martinez score his last goal for Atlanta United?
In the midst of all this situation, the South American striker was responsible for coming from the substitutes’ bench to score a great goal from scissors in the 81st minute; With this goal, Martínez momentarily tied the score and reached 9 goals in the MLS 2022. The acrobatic finish came following an extraordinary cross from the right wing by Brooks Lennon.
