This Wednesday, January 11, the Universitario de Deportes announced the signing of the Peruvian striker Alex Walera, who arrives as a free agent after his brief stint with Al-Fateh in Saudi Arabia. Later, Adrian Ugarrizafootballer from Sporting Crystal, quickly became a trend on social media. The reason? It happens that a large number of fans of the sky-blue team criticized their leadership for not trying to hire Valera and preferring the former element of Cienciano from Cusco.
“At this rate, our captain will be Ugarriza”, “What happened to Valera happened unfortunately after Ugarriza’s arrival”, “If a ‘9’ is missing. Ugarriza doesn’t give me confidence”, “Ugarriza is an anchor at the moment, hopefully it doesn’t cost us the championship because we don’t have any variants,” read some comments on Twitter.
Let’s recall that the Light Blues have three forwards in their squad to fight for a place in the starting XI: Ugarriza, Irven Ávila and Brazilian Brenner Marlos, who arrived at the explicit request of coach Tiago Nunes.
Adrián Ugarriza’s numbers in 2022
In the 2022 season, Adrian Ugarriza He played in Cienciano del Cusco. The Peruvian forward played 2,510 minutes in 32 games between Liga 1 and Copa Sudamericana, scoring 10 goals and providing four assists.
Previously, the “9” ran through Alianza Lima, Universitario de Deportes, UTC de Cajamarca, Real Garcilaso and the Universidad San Martín. He also defended the jersey of the Peru U-20 team.