Iker Muniainhistoric number 10 who will leave Athletic Bilbao as a free agent, at 31 years old, has spent his entire football life in said club, in which he won two Spanish Super Cups in 2015 and 2021 and has just won the Copa del Rey in this 2024: “I hope I have been able to help you all understand the Athletic feeling a little more, what it means to wear this shirt every weekend,” he told his teammates.
A River Plate fan, his name began to be heard in Núñez, since they understand that for him it would be one of the dreams to fulfill, so taking this case as a reference and waiting for news, we review other examples of internationally renowned footballers who were mentioned to wear the Band's shirt.
The “Pistolero” was really very close to playing for River. In fact, if River beat Vélez in the Round of 16 of the 2022 Copa Libertadores, it would surely have happened. “I didn't know he was going to come to River, but I imagined. In fact, later he told me: 'Now I'm not going to Argentina at all,'” Godín, his teammate on the Uruguay national team, said with a laugh. Finally, the striker played for Nacional in Uruguay for six months before becoming a Gremio player. Today he plays for Inter Miami, with Messi.
RUMORA! David Beckham could return to football for River Plate in Argentina. His salary would be paid by Adidas. http://t.co/c001DeihA2
— Soccer Report (@Reporte_Futbol) January 8, 2014
In 2014, Beckham sounded strong to play for River. “Guillermo Tofoni, the businessman who slipped the possibility that David Beckham joins River Platesaid this Tuesday, January 7, that the arrival of English is 80% closed,” it was reported that year. However, it never prospered.
TOLDO 🇮🇹: Julio Cruz said on the air on a Fox program that Franesco Toldo confessed to him at the time that he would have liked to play for River. pic.twitter.com/IOC76a1HcB
— El Famoso River (56%) (@ElFamosoRP) May 13, 2020
“In my time at Inter, several Italians wanted to know what it was like to play for River or Boca. At one point Toldo had told me that he would have loved to come to River. I have a lot of relationship with him,” he told Gardener Julio Cruz in dialogue with Fox Sports. However, the renowned goalkeeper never arrived at the institution.
LAMPARD 🏴: “their stories lived in River (x Crespo) motivated me a lot to want to play. He showed me photos and videos when he played there, he showed me the video of the championship and the Copa Libertadores they won in '96 and I had never seen anything like that in my life.” pic.twitter.com/bGE6SLCEnN
— El Famoso River (56%) (@ElFamosoRP) May 13, 2020
The former historic Chelsea player is another River fan, and it all started thanks to Hernán Crespo who was his teammate at Chelsea. “When Hernán played here we used to talk a lot about Argentine football, and his stories about River motivated me a lot to want to play for that club. From that moment on I didn't stop watching Argentine football, especially River”, declared Lampard, who also could not arrive. What would have been…
Thank goodness I was always a member of River and Chelsea like Didier Drogba. https://t.co/HKDHYbuwuf pic.twitter.com/VmraaxGFRJ
— 🇦🇷 (@chomickirio) February 1, 2023
“My God is Maradona, but I am a River fan and I would like to play there,” Drogba responded in a note he made more than a decade ago with the Fox Sports signal. It was 2012 and it was still in business. And when he could, he followed the games of the person who instilled in him his love for the Band: Daniel Alberto Villalva, “Keko”, who faced him in a game and then they stayed chatting. In the end it never happened.
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