RC Celta opens the winter market with a center-back with a lot of experience and solidity. Jeison Murillo (Cali, Colombia, May 27, 1992) arrives on loan from Sampdoria, with an option to buy, to complement the sky-blue defensive line and provide intensity, solvency and experience.
The 27-year-old Colombian international defender, who passed his medical examination at the Clinica RC Celta this afternoon, has extensive experience in the Spanish league, having played in the first division with Granada, Valencia and Barcelona. He also had an important role in Inter Milan, with whom he played 69 games, scoring three goals and giving two assists.
In the Spanish First Division he accumulated more than seventy matches, as in the Italian Serie A, and he has also participated in the Europa League and the Champions League. Jeison Murillo is a international player with Colombia, with which he has played some thirty -something matches, including the America’s Cup and qualifying for the World Cup. This season he has played twelve matches with Sampdoria, ten in the League and two in the Italian Cup. His last participation was last weekend against Brescia.
