In the early morning of December 29, Beijing time, the Paraguayan First Division champions freely announced that they had signed 40-year-old Paraguayan homegrown striker Roque Santa Cruz, the former Bayern and Manchester City goalscorer, who has won the home league for 5 consecutive times, and now he is jumping ship again, and it seems that it is not a problem to regain the league crown next season.
Santa Cruz's career is indeed long enough, in 1997, before the age of 16, he made his career debut for his parent team Olympia, moved to Europe at the age of 18, joined Bundesliga giants Bayern, played for the South King for 8 seasons, made 238 appearances, scored 54 goals, and won 13 major and minor titles, including five Bundesliga and 2000-01 Champions League titles.
In the Bayern era, do you know the black and hard next to you?
In 2007, Santa Cruz moved to England, playing for Blackburn and Manchester City, playing in 86 Premier League games and scoring 26 goals; in 2011, he moved to La Liga to play for Betis and Malaga, scoring 19 goals in 91 la Liga games, during which he also played for the Mexican league giants Blue Cross for a year.
Blackburn's era
In 2016, the 35-year-old Santa Cruz returned to his homeland and joined his parent team, Assunsen Olympia, playing for 6 seasons, also having 178 games and 75 goals, with the team won 3 spring league and two autumn league laurels, last season, he played for Olympia Spring League 2nd, Autumn League 8th, but won the Paraguay Cup laurel, Santa Cruz made 25 league appearances, contributed 4 goals and two assists.
Played for Olympia
The new season of paraguay will start on February 4, Santa Cruz will embark on a new journey in the 25th year of his career, really as some netizens said, "for Roque, time is just a number".