{"id":9660,"date":"2012-02-24T19:44:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9660"},"modified":"2012-02-25T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:51:58","slug":"report-moreno-will-join-revs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9660","title":{"rendered":"Report: Moreno Will Join Revs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated: 24 February, 2012 @ 9:44 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been strangely silent the past few weeks in the Colombian press on the issue of whether Jose \u201cPepe&#8221; Moreno will join the New England Revolution. <em>New England Soccer Today<\/em> has tried to get updates from Moreno\u2019s club Once Caldas with no success after an initial response.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, however, <em>El Tiempo<\/em>, Colombia\u2019s leading newspaper, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eltiempo.com\/deportes\/futbol-colombiano\/ARTICULO-WEB-NEW_NOTA_INTERIOR-11212023.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported Moreno must leave Once Caldas<\/a><\/span> because club President Jos\u00e9 Manuel L\u00f3pez did, in fact, sign the papers for him to join the New England Revolution on loan. The report confirms what the Revolution have asserted all along \u2013 all the papers were signed to make the loan official.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Sports Editor of\u00a0<em>La Patria<\/em>\u00a0(the local paper of Once Caldas), Osvaldo Hern\u00e1ndez, tweeted that Once Caldas will no longer use Moreno, as the player has a contract with MLS.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>El Once Caldas no utilizar\u00e1 m\u00e1s a Jos\u00e9 Pepe Moreno. El jugador tiene un contrato firmado con la MLS, algo acordado con el Once Caldas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Osvaldo Hern\u00e1ndez (@osvaldoinforma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osvaldoinforma\/status\/173136252915290112\" data-datetime=\"2012-02-24T20:04:34+00:00\">February 24, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nAccording to the Revs, Moreno\u2019s loan takes effect starting March 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Revs originally reported signing the Colombian striker on <a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=8964\" target=\"_blank\">February 2nd<\/a>, but on February 7th <a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9063\" target=\"_blank\">reports surfaced<\/a> the Moreno intended to stay with Once Caldas. Revolution President Brian Bilello confirmed all the paperwork to complete the loan had been signed, but that the team had been unable to contact the 30-year-old Moreno as of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsoccer.net\/blog\/post\/2012\/02\/09\/jose-moreno-update\" target=\"_blank\">February 9th<\/a>. On February 13th <a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9220\" target=\"_blank\">sources in Colombia indicated<\/a> the Revs were suing Moreno for breach of contract, though those reports appear to have been premature.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-0 journeyman striker has already changed clubs or gone on loan a dozen times in his career, playing for nine different clubs, and his scoring record is inconsistent. His current club, Once Caldas, finished first in the top division of Colombia in 2011 with Moreno scoring 8 goals in 20 league games.<\/p>\n<p>While finding accurate stats at all the various clubs Moreno has played at proves a difficult task, it appears the forward hasn\u2019t scored over 10 league goals in a season for any club in at least the last five years. Moreno\u2019s best years seemed to come with Millonarios F\u00fatbol Club and Am\u00e9rica de Cali from 2004 to 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian rode his goal scoring exploits in 2005 and 2006 to time with various teams outside of the country in nations such as Ukraine, Argentina, Romania and Peru. Moreno would actually see some UEFA Champions League action as a late sub in a 4-1 Dynamo Kiev loss to Steaua Bucuresti in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, however, failed to stick with any club before returning back to Colombia in 2011. Now he appears set to move teams for the 13th time in his career to join the Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombia&#8217;s leading newspaper claims Moreno must join Revs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/moreno1.jpg?fit=621%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9660"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9660\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}