The Sorority has agreed to hire defender Rodrigo on the afternoon of Thursday. Former Flamengo and Sao Paulo, the player belongs to Dynamo Kiev, Ukraine, which will receive about $ 150 billion (U.S. $ 277 thousand) for the one-year loan to the Tricolor Gaucho. The presentation of Rodrigo should happen in the coming days.
The Dynamo have already submitted documentation to Rodrigo Gremio and thus, the athlete must perform medical examinations as early as this Friday. The entrepreneur's defender Giuseppe Dioguardi, in Ukraine.
Rodrigo has 29 years, 1,82 m and 77kg. He left the Tricolor Paulista earlier this season, as the loan contract was not renewed. In May 2009, suffered a pulmonary embolism, had to be hospitalized, underwent a period of recovery and returned in the final of the Campeonato Brasileiro. Recently, he was negotiating the return to the Rubro-Negro carioca, which has been unwilling to pay the amount requested by the Ukrainian club. The move by the Flemish in 2008, was hampered by a broken right arm when he began to make chances in the starting lineup.
The hiring of Rodrigo partially meets the desire of coach Silas, who wants to cast one more defender, preferably high. Douglas da Silva, a Brazilian who plays for Hapoel Tel-Aviv (Israel), is still under discussion. He will be assessed in the coming days by Paulo Pereira, assistant commander gremista.
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