Real MadridTOThe former player was one of ten arrested in an operation that remains open
ANDl former playerEdwin CongoHe was arrested this morning by the police in an operation against a drug trafficking network, in this case cocaine, in which ten people have been arrested in Spain. The former Colombian player, who militates among others in the ranks of theReal Madrid,Valladolid, Levante, Sporting de Gijn or Recreativo de Huelva, and who was now a collaborator of El Chiringuito de Jugones, was detained by the Central Narcotics Brigade and released after declaring, within the framework of an operation that is still open.
Edwin Congo (Bogot, 1976) arrived in Spain in 1999 from Once Caldas, in a transfer of around 5 million euros, at the time one of the largest in the history of Colombian football. But Congo found no place in theReal Madridand played on loan at Valladolid, with which he played 14 games and scored a goal. A year later, his destination was Vitoria de Guimaraes, although in January he made the leap to the French league, to play for Toulouse, thanks to the four goals he had scored in10 matches in Portugal. In Ligue 1 he only scored one goal and on 01-02 he returned to Real Madrid, where he did not play a single minute.
After his time with the white team, he left for Levante, a club where he played for four years. Then he would play at Sporting and Recreativo de Huelva, the last club in the lite.
CongoHe was now working as a collaborator in the El Chiringuito de Jugones program and played some matches at Real Madrid for veterans, participating in some editions of the charity event organized by the Foundation each year, the Corazón Classic Match.
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