This Tuesday, August 11, it became known through the Portuguese newspaper ‘O Jogo’ that Jackson Martínez had agreed to leave Portimonense, a team where he would have one more year of contract, to return to Deportivo Independiente Medellín.
The 33-year-old Chocoano finishes his second cycle in Portuguese football, where he played 54 games and scored 12 goals, of which three were in his last season.
“They were two seasons of dedication, a lot of sacrifice and some goals and good performances. Jackson Martínez ended his relationship with Portimonense, in this second Portuguese football adventure, very different, of course, from the first, in which, at the service of FC Porto, he positioned himself as one of the best strikers to act in Europe. At the age of 33, Cha Cha Cha decided to return to his country and to Independiente Medellín, curiously where it all began, to play one more season before ‘hanging up the glove’ ”, expressed ‘O Jogo’.
After the information known by the red team of Antioquia in which they would be waiting for the results of medical tests and waiting for a new communication next Thursday, August 13. Everything indicates that the process would accelerate and Medellín would have a reinforcement for its attack.
Despite the attempts by Portimonense to stay in the team as a player or as an ambassador for the club, if he wanted to stay in Portugal, the Chocoano revealed the desire to play in Colombia and that is why the Portuguese accepted the player’s request who played for Porto, Atlético de Madrid and Guangzhou de China.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
En twitter: @juanchoserran8
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