Tevez agrees to join Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua

Record ID: 162698

  • Title: Tevez agrees to join Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua
  • Date: 29th December 2016
  • Summary: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UK (FILE) (REUTERS) SERGIO AGUERO AND TEVEZ (32) TRAINING TURIN, ITALY (FILE - JUNE 1, 2015) (REUTERS) JUVENTUS PLAYERS ARRIVING ON PITCH TEVEZ WALKING ONTO PITCH VARIOUS OF TEVEZ TRAINING ALONGSIDE TEAM-MATES
  • Embargoed: 13th January 2017 08:19
  • Keywords: Tevez Argentina Boca China Shanghai
  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA / MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UK / TURIN, ITALY
  • City: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA / MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, UK / TURIN, ITALY
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Soccer,Sport
  • Reuters ID: LVA0025EXQZPB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Argentine striker Carlos Tevez will join Shanghai Shenhua from boyhood club Boca Juniors, the Chinese Super League side said on Thursday (December 29).
    "Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC reached a transfer agreement with Argentina Club Atletico Boca Juniors. Carlos Alberto Tevez is officially joined Shanghai Shenhua," the club said in a statement on its website (www.shenhuafc.com.cn).
    Although no financial details of the deal were released, media reports have suggested that the Chinese club paid 84 million euros ($87.65 million) for the 32-year-old Tevez, who returned to Argentina after spells in England and Italy.
    ($1 = 0.9583 euros)
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