The relationship between the two teams is defined by the 22 player operations they have exchanged, totaling nearly $ 40 million.
America and Santos will be measured this Tuesday at the Azteca Stadium in a duel corresponding to the Matchday 14 of Apertura 2021. On the court sThey were rivals, but outside of it both institutions have worked hand in hand for several years and various players have worn both shirts as part of the business between the Azulcrema board and Grupo Orlegi, which owns the Santistas.
During practically all this business friendship, the Americanists have received the best elements of the lagoon team to prop up the Eagles, although there are few who really shone with the azulcrema shirt. Matías Vuoso was the player who started that tradition, later Fernando Ortiz and Edgar Castillo arrived; after them, Cristian Benítez, one of the most profitable transfers from La Laguna to Coapa, because the forward was a three-time scoring champion with America and also earned a league title in 2013.
The signings of America in Torreón they continued with the arrivals of Osmar Mares, Oribe Peralta and Carlos Darwin Quintero, in the case of the Colombian his passage was marked by irregularity, controversy and his health problems; while Cepillo was league champion twice with the Americanistas, but he left through the back door, after leaving the capital club to play for Chivas de Guadalajara.
The last purchases that America did in the TSM were those of the goalkeeper Agustín Marchesín and the defender Jorge Sánchez. The goalkeeper was league champion with the Eagles and left for Porto leaving a significant amount of money to the Azulcremas coffers; while Sánchez remains at the club and it is expected that in the future it could be a new important sale for the feathered ones.
There are transfers of players who left Coapa and made the direct trip to Torreón. Elements such as Matías Vuoso, Jesús Molina, Luis Mendoza, Osvaldo Martínez, Emilio Orrantia and Brian Lozano went to the north of the country as part of the business of this company, although only in the cases of Vuoso and Lozano did the Santista entity make valid the option of buy and left money to America.
In total they have been 22 players who have gone from Santos to America and vice versa, all these transactions are around almost 40 million dollars and no other team has this number of operations with any other club in particular, showing that the relationship between America and Orlegi Group it is unbeatable.
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