Zigic Heads Back To Racing

Nikola Zigic will make a sec­ond stint in San­tander after becom­ing one of the most promis­ing for­wards in La Liga last sea­son.  Rac­ing pres­i­dent Nicolás Pernía was able to get his man back on a six-month loan basis.  He will once again wear the green and white until June 30th. He will once again unite with Pedro Muni­tis to make up the other part of the duo saca­pun­tos (The Point-Taking Duo) that wasone of the most feared in all of La Liga in 2006-07.

After sign­ing El Gigan­tón to a five-year, € 19 mil­lion con­tract in 2006, they thought that they got the hottest player in that year’s mar­ket.  Things would unravel quickly dur­ing Los Chés’  hor­rid sea­son last year and the ene­t­ual sign­ing of Unai Emery.  He did man­age to win the Copa del Rey last year with Valencia.

The Ser­bian Peter Crouch has not since been the man that he was with Rac­ing, so this would be a change of pace for him– for the bet­ter. The Ser­bian inter­na­tional was the player that Rac­ing wanted as rumors begin to sur­face that Meme Tchité is the player that the Cantabri­ans are going to place on dis­play dur­ing the upcom­ing trans­fer win­dow.  After arriv­ing to San­tander in 2006 from Red Star Bel­grade, Zigic ful­filled his poten­tial by scor­ing 11 goals in 32 matches.  Since his move to Valen­cia he has only played in 18 in two sea­sons and scored only seven goals.