After Johan Vázquez’s foray into European football with Genoa of Italy and with the rumors that underpin Orbelin Pineda with Celta de Vigo in Spain in the next winter market, another Mexican footballer It seems that he will fulfill the dream of top-level football.
Santiago Munoz footballer who still belongs to Santos Laguna, is a few hours away from defining its future in the old continent.
In a fact iconic and surprising, Muñoz’s story is very similar to that of Muñez, another Santiago, a player of Mexican origin residing in the United States than in the fictional story reflected on the big screen in the cult soccer film Goal In 2005, he joined the same England team, Newcastle, after some misfortunes and troubles of fame, gets to be consecrated in one of the best teams in world football, the real Madrid.
The case of Santiago Muñoz is also particular, since he was born in El Paso, Texas, in the United States, of Mexican origin, that participates in the lagoon group since 2018 in inferiors and that debuted in the first team in the Guard1anes 2020 tournament in a match against the Atlético San Luis club.
Santiago was one of the runners-up with the Mexican team of the U-17 World Youth Cup in Brazil in 2019. In addition to being one of those summoned for the qualifying tournament of the Mexican under-23 team towards the recently completed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Therefore, he already has vast experience in terms of the national team.
The talks between the English team and the representative of Santiago Muñoz have been part of the controversy, discord and anger of the Lagunero club in recent weeks. So much so that he was separated from the preseason of the club’s first force in Jalisco, in addition to not be considered in the official lists for the Apertura 2021 tournament for both the first team and the U-20 team, where you have your current contract.
But so far, despite what has been said, Santiago Muñoz has not assured his place in Newcastle’s first team, since It remains to be determined whether it is allowed to be enrolled in the group or not.
Since January 2020, the Football Association of England (FA), the managers of the Premier League and the EFL (lower divisions of the country) concommitted with the English government a new point system to acquire the work visa for foreign soccer players in the country’s leagues.
Players under the age of 21 who want to belong to the Premier League must reach 15 points minimum to be able to join the first teams. These points are generated in a meritocratic field, that is, points are added depending on whether they have already debuted in the first league of the country of origin, the performances of the players in their leagues of origin, the quality of these, and whether they have performances in finals, or in their respective youth and senior national teams of the last year.
Muñoz adds 12 of the 15 necessary points, since his performances in the concacaf pre-olympic and in the 2019 u-17 world cup did not count for the score by not having the minimum of minutes in the first and having more than a year of the second.
So the set of magpies will have to request special permission from the UK Government Approval Governing Body (EGB) The same that will be evaluated by a panel of experts within the organization so that the youth can be integrated into the first team, paying a sum of 5,500 euros to process the permit.
Santiago Muñoz’s dream emulating the one made by the fictional athlete from the movie Gol is nowhere to be seen, with striking similarities, we will see if the future of the footballer will be the same or similar to that shown by the 2005 film.
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