![]() ![]() He played the last two games of that year at home against Racing Club and away to Tigre, scoring his first goal with the club in their visit to the latter. River Plateįunes Mori began his professional career with River Plate in the Argentine Primera División on 6 December 2009, on a 1–3 defeat against Vélez Sársfield. He participated in Sueño MLS and won the contest, therefore becoming part of FC Dallas. His coach with ASG was Uche Okafor.Īfter that, Chelsea scout Jorge Alvial scouted Rogelio and Ramiro on the first day of the reality show Sueño MLS, and spoke to his parents about a future tryout at Chelsea. Gabriel and Ramiro, who are identical twins, also played several seasons for the Associated Soccer Group (ASG) 91' team. Funes Mori scored 40 goals in the 2008 season leading his team to District Champions and Area Finalist with a record of 24–2–1. The twins' father, Miguel, played professional football in Argentina with such clubs as Independiente Rivadavia and Club Atlético Argentino in the 1980s. In 2001, he moved to Workman Junior High and Arlington High School, playing football with his twin brother, Ramiro. So the math is still the same-right now, we have Pau, Albiol, Mandi and Cuenca if Pau were to leave for big bucks, we’d be looking to invest in a new central defender.įarewell Funes, good luck, don’t call us, we won’t call you.Funes Mori was born in Mendoza, Argentina. Yes, Funes leaving means one less CB but if Pau left he was never going to start anyhow-that much was clear. One we let get away.ĭoes Funes Mori’s departure mean we’re more confident about keeping Pau Torres? Not really. Still only 30, he has had a pretty good career with Eibar, Newcastle and Alavés. Don’t remember him? He was the young French center-back that Villarreal developed in the 2011-14 seasons but let him leave on a free transfer. In an odd twist of fate, news comes today that Alavés have today signed Florian Lejeune from Newcastle. He leaves with a Europa League medal (he looked like he was trying slightly too hard to celebrate, didn’t he? And wearing his shirt back-to-front? Awkward). And decent was the least we were hoping for, spending almost €9m on him. I’ll mostly remember him for the blunders and clumsy jumps, but he did put in some decent shifts-just nothing any better than that. I can’t imagine any Villarreal fans are going to miss him he wasn’t awful, in fact sometimes (especially under Emery late last season) was decent, but you always had the feeling that a misstep or a blunder might be only a second or two away. It was pretty much an open secret he was leaving, and the wording of the official club comminiqué sort of reflects that-terse, brief thanks, but see ya. Unai Emery evidently wasn’t impressed with him either he saw only 700 minutes of La Liga action in 2020-21. Funes Mori was given the chance to succeed, and he didn’t really take it-not only did he have 15 (!) yellow cards in 2018-19, but even though Javi Calleja relied on him that season, the next year, the emergence of Pau Torres, plus an Achilles tendon problem once the pandemic-suspended season resumed, meant that he played in only 7 league matches. We hoped for more, we didn’t get it.įunes Mori featured a lot in his first season with Villarreal-31 matches in the league plus 10 in the Europa League-but of course, that was the 2018-19 season when we flirted with relegation. Funes Mori was a controversial signing to begin with-his time at Everton didn’t exactly indicate he was a calm presence in the back line. ![]() ![]() We apparently transferred him for the amount of his transfer fee left to be amortized (€2.2m). The Argentine defender, signed from Everton three summers ago, has left to join.Al-Nassr FC in Saudi Arabia. Well, we won’t have Ramiro Funes Mori as a member of Villarreal’s 2021-22 squad. ![]()
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