"Nobody knows: Agustín Rossi reveals details about his Boca exit" | OneFootball

After securing a spot in the Copa Libertadores final by eliminating Racing and being a key player for Flamengo, Agustín Rossi spoke with the Argentine press. The goalkeeper spoke again about his departure from Boca Juniors and revealed details about how his exit from the Ribera club happened.

“Honestly, with everything I did, my intention was always to stay,” began the 30-year-old goalkeeper as he recalled how he ended up leaving the club. In his version of events, Agustín Rossi insists that he did everything possible to remain at Xeneize. However, after a long negotiation in which Boca offered him a great contract and to be one of the highest-paid on the team, he did not accept the terms.

The goalkeeper left the Xeneize club as a free agent.

This was acknowledged by the goalkeeper in the interview he gave to ESPN: “Obviously, not at the time of talking about a renewal, but a year and a half before we had already had some conversations and then it didn’t work out.” The truth is that, just a few months before his contract ended, he signed a pre-agreement with Flamengo and was then loaned to Al-Nassr, where he played until he could join the Brazilian team.

In the same vein, he stated: “The truth is that my family too, nobody knows this, but at home we suffered a lot from the very first moment the talks started, everything that was said, what the president said at the time, but obviously these are negotiations, and we couldn’t reach a good outcome.”

To conclude, the goalkeeper emphasized, “the only thing I have nothing to argue about, something I can never forget, is all the support the fans always gave me, cheering for me in the stadium, on the street. Even today, when I run into Argentines in Rio, they still congratulate me and thank me for what I gave to Boca at the time, but these are things that happened this way and today I am very well and very happy.”

The day Agustín Rossi left the Xeneize squad

The goalkeeper’s departure from Boca was tumultuous for the club and on the verge of scandal. Rossi ended up leaving through the back door and in the middle of a cup final. The current Flamengo goalkeeper was part of the Xeneize delegation that traveled to the United Arab Emirates to play the International Supercup final that Boca played against Racing (and lost).

The goalkeeper was returning with the squad, but got off the plane.

The goalkeeper traveled with the team and on the return trip, there was a layover in Madrid, Spain. There, the delegation stayed for almost 2 hours and when the plane was about to take off for Buenos Aires, Rossi received a call, took his belongings, and got off the plane.

At the same airport, he signed the papers to seal his agreement with Al-Nassr, the club where he played for a few months so as not to be sidelined at Boca and to keep playing while his contract with Boca ended, and then later join Flamengo.

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