The negotiations between the emerald team and the five-time World Cup winner are on the right track at the moment
The five-time World Cup winner Andres Guardado is one signature away from being a new player of the Club Leon in what could be the bombshell of the winter market in the Liga MX.
Sources confirmed to ESPN that the negotiations between Club Leon and Betis from Seville and Andres Guardado are very advanced and could be closed in the next few hours, although all parties remain cautious to prevent the operation from collapsing.
“We have not signed. It is the intention. “We are going well,” a source with knowledge of the negotiations told this medium.
If the arrival of Andres Guardado al Leon, the emerald team would also make history by adding its third player with five World Cups, after the recently deceased Antonio ‘Tota’ Carbajal, and the current coach of Barça B, Rafael Márquez.
The 37-year-old Mexican midfielder has played for 17 consecutive years in European football since he arrived at Deportivo La Coruña in 2007 until now with the Betis passing through Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen and PSV Eindhoven.
Emerged in the basic forces of the Atlas, Andres Guardado He debuted in the First Division in August 2005 with the red and black team and after a meteoric rise in his career, he was called up by Ricardo La Volpe for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the first of the five World Cups he played in, including the 2010 South Africa editions. , Brazil 2014, Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022.
At club level, he was champion of the Second Division with Deportivo La Coruña in 2012, as well as of the defunct UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2008. In addition, he was two-time champion of the Eredivisie in the Netherlands with PSV in the 2014-15 and 2015 -16 seasons.
His record includes two Dutch Super Cups with PSV in 2015 and 2016, and also a Copa del Rey with Betis in the 2021-22 campaign, while with the Mexican National Team he won the Gold Cup three times in 2011, 2015 and 2019.
The Cancha Política portal was the first to report the negotiations so that Saved I arrived to Leon information that has been able to confirm ESPN.