Christian Gimenez arrived at Mexico in 2004, it was later abandoned Independent to play the extinct ones Veracruz Red Shark a team where he played from 2004 to 2005.
After playing in Puerto Jarocho, Gimenez left Veracruz to sign America but, 19 years after his arrival at Liga MX the Mexican-Argentine told how he arrived at Veracruz.
“I wanted to leave Argentina and they sold me Veracruz like Real Madrid and I came here. I know soccer in Mexico, but just to Blue Cross, America and those who play Libertadores, Santiago has been with my wife for two years, let’s see what happens,” he told the Sandra de La Vega on his podcast The Captain.
Giménez, who debuted in Boca Juniors In 1998, he also said what the salary of Super League of Argentina those days, so he decided to go and play Mexico still, as he himself confessed, that there is no knowledge of soccer in our country.
“The economic side is different. At Independiente they split you in two, they pay you a fixed salary and another bonus which is the amount of your contract, there many times they don’t have the possibility to pay you the bonus, you receive only. the salary. When I arrived in Veracruz they paid us on the 14th and 28th, I touched the sky with my hands. When I arrived in Veracruz it was great, I had to live in a period where, in sports and economically, I started settling for things that I couldn’t do in Argentina,” he commented.
Gimenez played with Veracruz, America, Pachuca y Blue Cross retired in 2018 from the Hidalgo team, he retired as a coach Cancún FC on Expansion League addressed Athens from Uruguay and is the technical assistant of Gabriel Caballero with Mazatlan FC.
