Buenos Aires, December 15 (NA) -- Boca Juniors will lose a youth player formed in its lower divisions due to the decision of forward Milton Pereyra to leave the country by exercising the legal right of patria potestad.
According to the Argentine News Agency, the player will use this legal recourse to move to Italy and join the youth divisions of Napoli.
At 17 years old and playing as a center forward, Pereyra has past experience in the Argentine national youth teams, having been called up to the Under-15 squad for a series of friendlies against Uruguay, playing 80 minutes in the second match.
The use of the legal recourse of patria potestad will once again leave Argentine football without a player formed in its youth categories. In this case, it is the forward Milton Pereyra, who is six months away from turning 18 and, in the absence of a professional contract, decided to continue his development in Italy, joining Napoli.
The young player arrived at 'Xeneize' at the age of seven, has been a part of the club's lower divisions ever since, and was recently part of the sixth division squad.
Alternating between starting and substitute roles, mainly being overtaken by the promising attacker Joaquín Piñeyro, Milton Pereyra had made a name for himself in the last Superclásico of the sixth division, scoring a brace against River.
Pereyra joins Luka Andrade, an 18-year-old left winger, as the second example of departures due to patria potestad that Boca has suffered this year. In his case, Andrade signed with City Group, owner of clubs like English Manchester City, Spanish Girona, or Italian Palermo.
His arrival at the corporate group was in January of this year, and he was quickly incorporated by Montevideo City Torque, an institution that is part of the aforementioned group and represents it in Uruguayan football.
In the First Division of the Montevideo team, Andrade started four times, accumulating a good number of minutes in the Apertura and Intermediate tournaments, in which he provided his only assist, but barely played five minutes throughout the Clausura, from August to November, without being called up for most of the matches.
