Racing Murcia sign Fernando Morientes

Racing Murcia continues with its strategy of adding former Madrid players to its project. The last ex-footballer of the white club to join the ambitious project of the team that plays in the Third Division, is Fernando Morientes. The three-time Champions League champion He is the new ambassador of the Murcian club. In this way, Morientes joins Roysthon Drenthe, the club's new signing in the winter market, and Edwin Congo, who works as a scout.

The Racing City Group, a business group to which the Murcian club belongs, is committed to a very media policy to give visibility to the entity and the latest movement has been the incorporation of Morientes. Morris Pagniello, the president of Racing Murcia, has already tried to sign several well-known faces from the world football scene who have already retired for the Copa del Rey tie against Levante. Some of the names that came up were Eto’o, Rafa Márquez or Cassano. However, none of these efforts came to fruition.

Morientes already acted as ambassador for the club at an event on Monday and at the conclusion of the event praised the Racing City Group project, which also owns Racing Capri and. “I know the group itself better than the Murcia club. I have had the opportunity and the luck to travel the world with them and see the project of some of their teams, such as Racing Capri from Italy, with the academies they have. . It is something interesting because, knowing those who are behind, they really want to grow “, said the former striker in statements collected by La Verdad.