Real Salt Lake have completed the signing of Venezuelan ahead Sergio Cordova on loan from FC Augsburg for the 2022 MLS season, the membership announced Thursday.
Cordova, 24, is RSL's first signing underneath new owners David Blitzer and Ryan Smith considering the fact that they took control of the membership in January.
“Bringing Cordova to Salt Lake turned into among our pinnacle priorities while we started discussing capacity alternatives for 2022,” widespread supervisor Elliot Fall stated in a press launch. “We’ve seen him excel with Venezuela, each as a children and senior country wide crew member, and all through his Bundesliga ascension as well.
“Cordova gives additional versatility to our assault, carrier from the wings, the capacity to move at opponents and lethal completing. He at once makes us deeper along with his quality, offering depth, incisiveness and intelligence.”
Primarily a middle-ahead who also can play on the wings, Cordova joins having scored seven goals and assisted some other 3 in seventy nine appearances for Augsburg across all competitions. In 14 appearances to date this season, he's failed to discover the net, while he scored two times in 23 Bundesliga outings in 2020/21 whilst on loan at Arminia Bielefeld.
At global level, Cordova has 15 senior caps to his name for Venezuela, offering at Copa America and in World Cup qualifying.
“My arrival to RSL has been very fine, the whole thing is well-prepared. We have the entirety to deliver out the best version of us, to get in form for the satisfactory performances of your career,” Cordova said.
“I assume the club is superb, the style of play, with a terrific organization of fellows. From day one I ought to see this organization is a family with the aid of the way my teammates acquired me. I don’t want to speak an excessive amount of approximately it, because as they say, ‘Those who talk loads, do little,’ however I need to compete with my teammates, fight for the badge and make large achievements right here in MLS.
"I assume whatever is possible whilst you see the organization of guys we've and their capability. We recognize we are able to get very some distance this season.”
Cordova leaves Augsburg simply over a month following the arrival of USMNT prospect Ricardo Pepi from FC Dallas.
