Yoshimar Yotún, the driver who is valued in the Peruvian team while waiting for a new club

the left hand of Yoshimar Yotún is the one that pulls the strings peruvian national team and Ricardo Gareca needed the midfielder to have minutes before playing the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers, that’s why the FPF had to pay insurance for Yoshi can play the friendly against Jamaica.

And Yotún took advantage of the almost 90 minutes he had. At the beginning it was difficult for him to get into the same rhythm as the attacking trident formed by Jairo Concha, Luis Iberico and Alex Valera, but as the minutes passed, he showed his panorama to lead the team, and even scored a great goal from outside the goal. area.

Today the Bicolor is Yoshimar Yotún’s letter of introduction to define his future. Last December Cruz Azul did not renew his contract and according to what they told us from Mexico, the reasons were purely sporting. Indeed, the play of the steering wheel had declined and did not pick up. The Peruvian team also felt it.

For this reason, Yotún was one of the first ‘foreigners’ to go to Videna when the Peruvian team began training last December. He knew that both to contribute to the Bicolor and to find a good club he had to be at the best possible pace.

From winning the Liga MX Clausura with 23 games played, he went on to only have a presence in 13 of the Apertura (9 as starters). For this reason, the board understood that renewing his contract was no longer an option

In the Peruvian team he is the undisputed starter, that’s why the FPF’s economic effort to pay the insurance for him to play. Having no club, Yotún’s representatives asked the directors that, if he was going to play, that it be done after having insurance defined in case of injury.

With Bicolor, Yotún has always been present, except when he missed the game against Bolivia in La Paz due to suspension. Then, he is one of the players who adds the most minutes on the steering wheel with Ricardo Gareca at the helm.

In addition, as the journalist Jesús Chirinos dictates, from They are data not opinions, with 14 appearances (goals + assists), Yotún is the fifth most influential player in the national team in the Gareca era.

He was not the figure against Jamaica, but Yotún showed that when his left foot is fine, the Peruvian team plays at its own pace and does it well. That is his cover letter to define his future, whether to return to the MLS or seek new horizons, perhaps in the Middle East.