After Libertadores Conquest, "Gata" Returns To Tigres

Gaston Fernandez is back with Tigres after helping Estudiantes win the Copa Libertadores title.

Jul 21, 2009 12:26:12 PM

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Gaston Fernandez "La Gata" - Tigres UANL (Mexsport)
After helping Argentine outfit Estudiantes La Plata win the 2009 Copa Libertadores, Gaston “La Gata” Fernandez is poised to make his triumphant return to Mexican football.

Fernandez joined Tigres UANL and hopes to continue his success with the Monterrey-based club, which still owns his rights.

“I am back after having won a very important international tournament like the Copa Libertadores and I do so in very good moment, which I hope to be able to display in the field,” Fernandez told reporters upon his arrival to Mexico.
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The Argentine striker has not been as successful in the Mexican league having already played with cross-town rivals “Rayados” de Monterrey, on loan, in the Clausura 2006 season. A year later Fernandez returned to Argentina where he won the league championship with San Lorenzo prompting Tigres to acquire the striker for US$ 3.3 million.

Despite scoring five goals with Tigres in the Clausura 2008 season, the felines sent Fernandez back to Argentina, on loan, to Estudiantes La Plata where he became a key figure. Fernandez's Copa Libertadores glory has now inspired new hope for the relegation threatened club that hopes he can continue his good run.

“Making a general analysis I had a good year, at Estudiantes it was a good year that ended with a Copa Libertadores, well then, I am always at the coaches orders and trying to add my own grain of sand in whichever place I get to be in,” confirmed a confident Fernandez.


Joel Aceves, Goal.com

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