President Flamengo announces intention to renew Guerrero contract

Flamengo President Eduardo Bandeira de Mello said on Wednesday that he intended to renew the contract of attacker Paolo Guerrero. He made this statement by introducing Colombian striker Fernando Uribe, new addition to the Rio club, for the season sequence.

"This is the Flamengo player, he will join the cast and he will help us a lot, we intend to stay with him for a long time," said the president. Guerrero has a contract with Flamengo only until August 10th. And he should return to the club in the coming days, after the elimination of Peru in the World Cup in Russia.

The player, however, will be back in doubt at the club, amidst negotiations to renew their ties. This is because he still has to comply with the doping suspension in the coming months.

The Peruvian striker was able to participate only at the World Cup for having suspensive effect before the Swiss Federal Tribunal on the penalty imposed by FIFA and extended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). ). By a prolonged suspension by the TAS, Guerrero could only return to the lawns next year.

Peruvian was tested positive for benzoylecgonine, one of the metabolites of cocaine, in October 2017, during a review conducted after the confrontation between Peru and Argentina in the playoffs of the South American World Cup. The mayor badured that the substance was consumed by ingestion of a tea that would be contaminated, claiming its innocence.

Initially, FIFA suspended for a year, then reduced the penalty to six months, which would allow his participation in the World Cup. But in a new call, CAS extended Guerrero's hook to 14 months. The attacker then obtained a suspensive effect before the Swiss Common Court, which will come back to judge him, after receiving the arguments of the sports court maximum, but still without a fixed date.