Soccer player Flavio Maestri will be the sixth Peruivan player to join the Chinese professional soccer, Thursday said the local press.

Maestri who is central forward, reached an agreement with a Shanghai soccer club, and will be officially introduced on Friday.

The striker has been in the national soccer team of Peru and local clubs Sporting Cristal, whith which he reached the second position in Libertadores Cup in 1997, and with Alianza Lima, and in the foreign teams Hercules (Spain), Universidad de Chile (Chile), San Luis (Mexico) and Vittoria (Brazil).

Last decade, Peruvian strikers Andres Gonzales and Wilfredo Begazo, defender Alvaro Barco, midfielders Frank Palomino and Rodrigo Valenzuela, also played for Chinese teams.

Source: Xinhua