Falcao García will be back at Old Trafford

Falcao García, after scoring a goal with Rayo.

The Colombian soccer player played there in 2014.

Cape Verdean winger Tiago Manuel Dias Correia ‘Bebé’ and Colombian striker Radamel Falcao They will return with Rayo Vallecano on July 31 to Old Trafford, a stadium they know well from their past as Manchester United players.

Baby arrived at Manchester United when he was just 19 years old, on August 1, 2010, after an operation in which the English team paid nine million euros to Vitoria de Guimaraes as a future bet for the Cape Verdean.

His time as a player was brief. In the 2010/2011 season he only played seven games, scoring two goals. In the following campaign he began playing with the subsidiary before leaving on loan to Río Ave. In July 2014 he left Manchester United when he was transferred to Benfica.

Falcao’s passage through England

Radamel Falcao Garcia, Manchester United. 2014 – 2015 (29 games and 4 goals).

That same summer of 2014 Radamel Falcao arrived in Manchester, although in his case as a consecrated striker after playing for Porto, Atlético de Madrid and Monaco, who loaned him out to the English team.

His adventure in the ‘red’ team barely lasted a season in which he played 29 games, scored four goals and gave four assists.

Manchester United finished fourth in the Premier and was far from fighting for the two cup titles. The following campaign, 2015/2016, Falcao left on loan to Chelsea.

The friendly match between Rayo and Manchester United will be played on July 31 and will help both pick up the pace for the start of the league season, which, in the case of the English team, will begin on the weekend of July 6 and 7 August and in Spain from 13 and 14.

EFE

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