Enzo Pérez returns to Deportivo Maipú in Primera Nacional bombshell | OneFootball

Deportivo Maipú have confirmed the return of Enzo Pérez on a six-month deal to December 2026. According to SuperDepor.com, he arrives as a free agent after mutually ending his Argentinos Juniors contract.

Unveiled in a social video, he returns after 24 years. Pérez debuted for Maipú on 8 September 2002 aged 16 in the Liga Mendocina, five years after joining in 1997.

Sold that year to Godoy Cruz, he played 88 games between 2003 and 2007 and broke into the first team in 2006. Estudiantes signed him in mid 2007. He won the 2009 Copa Libertadores and was 2008 Sudamericana runner-up.

He later moved to Europe with Benfica, then joined Valencia for 25 million in December 2014. In June that year Alejandro Sabella took him to the World Cup in Brazil, where Argentina finished runners-up to Germany.

At River from 2017, he lifted the Copa Libertadores over Boca on 9 December 2018 and added domestic and continental honours. In 2021 he played in goal against Independiente Santa Fe amid a COVID-19 crisis, despite a right hamstring strain, and River won 2-1.

He left in late 2023, returned in 2025 under Marcelo Gallardo, then ended his deal and joined Argentino, where minutes were scarce and he missed a penalty in the Torneo Apertura semi-final against Belgrano.

Source: SuperDepor.com