Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: Former Manchester United and Juventus striker Carlos Tevez agreed a move back to boyhood club Boca Juniors on Friday after 12 months in Chinese football with Shanghai Shenhua, the Argentine team announced.
"Tevez is coming home! He joined the team today and is already training with his teammates," Boca said on their various social media accounts alongside a photo of the player working out in a gym.
It will be the 33-year-old's third spell at Boca Juniors.
Tevez joined Shenhua in January last year and a spokesman had said on Friday the club had been in talks with the globetrotting Argentine to end his contract.
Tevez scored four goals in the Chinese championship during an injury-marred season in which he missed the Chinese Cup Final which his team won.
He was not in the squad for either leg of the final against Shanghai SIPG and flew back to Argentina just as his side lifted the trophy.
Shanghai Shenhua are in Group H of the 2018 AFC Champions League alongside Sydney FC of Australia, Japan's Kashima Antlers and the winners of the Play-off 1 (East).
Source: AFP