Galindo To Chivas

By: Andrea | January 8th, 2009

It’s been confirmed and it’s official. Aaron Galindo of Eintracht Frankfurt will be a new player to the Chivas squad for the upcoming season.

According to Nestor De La Torre Galindo is tied to the squad for 4 years as a definitive deal.

Frankfurt wasn’t to keen to let him go as he has been quite a regular with the team for the past season and the amount paid for the player wasn’t disclosed by either party.

But of course, as in many situations in Mexican football, the famed “Gentlemen’s Agreement” was brought up. First we had to get Cruz Azul’s permission to receive the player after he left them in a dispute in 2006. In return for their permission we have let them have first dibs on Omar Bravo if and when he decides to return to Mexican football.

As a Chivas fan I’m happy that we’re getting more players to make the squad stronger, and this one has experience too, but as a El Tri fan I’m disappointed. The national team isn’t as strong as we hope it would be and it was expected that with more players(especially all of our defense) in Europe, we would be kick ass. Well, that hasn’t really happened as we’ve seen during the recent rounds of World Cup Qualifying, and the past Olympic qualifying and I believe that bringing players who have been doing well in the leagues over sea’s is just a set-back. If the situation like Pardo’s at Stuttgart’s had been presented by feelings would be a little different. Pardo is getting near to the end of his career and it made sense that he’d come back to finish with his old team, America. But Galindo is still young and had a while to triumph. Now, I feel like he’s digressed.

It’s too bad really because he could have gone to a bigger European league.

What’s done is done and I’d like to welcome Aaron Galindo to the Club Deportivo Guadalajara. Help us win trophies and show everyone what Chivas is all about(so no drugs ahem…)

Galindo is set to join us “physically” next week after he returns to Germany to take care of some of the personal issues back in his old home.