Exclusive: Jonathan Rubio will sign a contract with Santa Clara of the Portuguese first division – Diez – Diario Deportivo

Jonathan Rubio will return to League NOS from Portugal after playing a year in the second category of the same country with the Desportivo Chaves, where they came close to fighting for promotion.

The Honduran national team puts an end to that stage and will focus on his new team, which according to what is known by DIEZ will be the Santa Clara of the Portuguese first division. Blond Bull he will sign his contract with this institution next week.

This media learned that the player will fly on Friday to Portugal to undergo the rigorous medical examinations and later stamp your signature with the Santa Clara from Ponta Delgada, club with which it has all the agreed terms.

Jonathan Rubio, 24 years old, will arrive free to the club that culminated last season as sixth place in a league that enshrined as champion, 20 years later, by Sporting Lisbon. The ‘Red Army’, as the team is known, was seven points behind Europa League.

The steering wheel after his commitments to the Honduras national team in the Final four of the Nations league and the friendly before Mexico, spent a few days on vacation in USA but returned to Honduras to be with his family and will leave from here to Portugal.

In this way the attacking midfielder will join Alberth elis as Honduran players, at the moment, in the League NOS from Portugal, in the absence of knowing the future of the other forward Bryan rochez, who has mentioned that he wants to continue in first class, this after the descent of the National from Madeira.

– His sixth jersey in Portugal –

Jonathan Rubio had a regular season with him Desportivo Chaves who directed VĂ­tor Campelos. In Second League he played 14 games and celebrated a goal and in the Cup tournament he had no participation. The Honduran surprised by signing an agreement with this institution after consummating a brilliant season (2019-2020) with the Tondela, but according to what he stated, he did it so that the processing of his community papers would not suffer a delay.

The San Miguel Stadium will be Jonathan Rubio’s new home, a modest venue with capacity for 13,200 people.

Thus, Jonathan Rubio will sweat his sixth jersey in football Portugal, since before it went through the Gil Vicente, Varzim, Academic of Coimbra, Tondela Y Chaves. It should be noted that this boy, trained in the Marcet Foundation from Barcelona, also had brief steps through the Arandina from Spain and the Zion from Swiss, the latter in their reserves. For the 2018-2019 season it was purchased by the Huesca from Spain but he did not manage to play any minute with this club.