Forward Luis Amarilla will rejoin Minnesota United from Argentine Primera División facet Vélez Sarsfield via the 2023 MLS season with options for 2024-25.
The Paraguayan will occupy a Designated Player spot on Minnesota’s roster. He returns after being with the club previously in 2020 even as fighting an ankle damage.
“We’re delighted to welcome him again. He nonetheless owes us 23 desires, as he promised us 25 whilst he arrived here in 2020,” head train Adrian Heath stated in a launch. “We felt then he would be a consistent goal scorer inside the league and we sense the equal once more. He’s had any other genuinely effective 12 months [in Quito] and we felt, whilst the opportunity came, it became too true to turn down.
“There is a feel of unfinished business and he’s expressed a real preference to come back lower back. With Luis, there is a few familiarity which you don’t constantly get with global gamers. We understand him and we understand what kind of character we’re getting on and stale the sphere. Competition for places may be fierce, but we experience as though he’ll be a large plus for us this 12 months.”
He arrives after recording 15 goals in a single season on loan at Quito, where he led the Ecuadorian Liga PRO side to the league championship.
“It’s a go back that I wanted. I wanted to return returned. I desired to go back. Even extra so, it’s a metropolis that I assume is awesome,” Amarilla stated in a release. “I’m very happy and with all of the preference to get going and play. For me, [2020] was now not the season that I desired, because of my harm. But these days, I’m here with the desire and ambition to do things the right way, do matters in another way. Hopefully, it’s a first-rate yr.”
With the Loons, he controlled two dreams and one assist throughout seven ordinary-season suits.
Internationally, the player has been capped 4 instances through Paraguay’s country wide team.
