This Monday, the 3rd, Bahia announced defender Vitor Hugo, who was featured in Palmeiras in 2016, as the 18th reinforcement for the 2023 season
On the afternoon of Monday, the 3rd, the bahia announced the signing of defender Vitor hugowho stood out in Brazilian football for the palm trees. With passages through Italy, the defender was in Türkiye, defending the Trabzonspor. With a definitive contract until the end of 2026, the 31-year-old player is the 18th reinforcement of Tricolor.
This morning, Vitor Hugo had his departure confirmed from the Turkish club, which he has defended since the 2020 season, participated in 99 matches and scored nine goals. In that regard, Carlos Santorodirector of football at Bahia, said that Tricolor had been looking to hire the defender since the end of 2022, but only managed to make that wish come true now.
“Vitor Hugo is a player we’ve been interested in since the project arrived in December, and we’ve only now managed to make it effective. Leader, experienced, winner, champion of Libertadores, Brasileirão and Copa do Brasil, just like last year in Turkey. A left-handed defender, who fits the characteristics of our game model and the type of football we want to play”said the leader.
With the implementation of the three defender scheme made by Renato Paiva, Bahia felt the need to have a left-handed defender, since all the players in the position are right-handed. Therefore, Vitor Hugo arrives at the club with title holder status, in addition to having one of the characteristics that the commission considered lacking in the current squad.
At the age of 31, Bahia’s new reinforcement also fulfills an important wish that the team had when assembling the squad. Aiming at the Brazilian championship, which is very complicated, Tricolor wants to have more experienced players. Vitor even won the competition in 2018, when he was playing for Palmeiras.
Source: sportbuzz
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