2024-01-07 15:00:53
Teófilo Gutiérrez left Deportivo Cali before his contractual relationship ended and at the moment he is without a team, waiting to reach an agreement to be able to face the 2024 season. Although he has been linked to Junior de Barranquilla, for the moment There has been no green light from the directives for his eventual return.
Now that his future is uncertain and he is training separately to arrive in shape for his next club, the 38-year-old footballer announced in the middle of an Instagram broadcast when he will end his professional career. “This is my last year in football and after that I will retire. In December,” said the player.
Teo does not sound in the country’s transfer market with just over 10 days left until the Colombian League begins in its first semester. The footballer, for his part, is resolving a legal dispute with the Prosecutor’s Office, after he touched a logistics woman without consent at the Manuel Murillo Toro stadium in Ibagué in a game for the semi-final home runs of the tournament. Gutiérrez defended himself before the organization and issued a statement in which he denied the accusations and assured that he respected women.
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The Barranquilla native’s last year was one of little stability, because after leaving Deportivo Cali at the end of 2022, in February 2023 he signed for Atlético Bucaramanga, a club in which he did not have a notable time. Later, in July he returned to the Valle del Cauca institution and contributed 3 goals and 4 assists in 18 games that he was able to play.
For now, he has no choice but to wait for an offer from a club that wants to have his services for what will be his last year as a professional. Throughout his career, he has won 15 titles at the club level, highlighting the Copa Libertadores with River Plate (2015), the Sudamericana (2014) and the three Colombian League trophies with Junior (2018-2019) and Deportivo Cali (2021).
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