Jairo Puerto signs for Puerto Rico FC

PRFC’s latest signing, Jairo Puerto. Photo credit: La Prensa

Jairo Puerto will be wearing orange next year. The 28-year-old winger was announced as PRFC’s latest signing this morning by the club. PRFC have a wealth of talent in attacking options — the likes of Sidney Rivera, Jorge Rivera, Giuseppe Gentile, Walter Ramirez and Jordi Quintilla. Puerto, a San Francisco-born Honduran international, is capable of playing as a right winger as well as a striker, and will be an asset to Adrian Whitbread’s team.

Soc Takes spoke with Whitbread about the signing:

“The Jairo Puerto signing has been a process that Marco Vélez brought to our attention through the Honduran Men’s National Team assistant coach who then communicated with our technical director Neil Sillett. We then began the process of looking at film at speaking to the player. We were very happy with what we saw and heard from him. He brings another attacking option to our team as well as international experience. We are very excited to get him on the island subject to ITC clearance because we know he is a strong addition to our squad this season,” Whitbread told us.

Whitbread previously informed Soc Takes that he expects to have his squad close to finalized by the time the CFU Championships kick off early next month. The fact that Puerto has experience in the CONCACAF Championship, having played 8 games in the tournament for RCD Espana, likely helped convince PRFC to move for him. Puerto has played 133 league games and scored 12 goals.

PRFC now boast one of the most front-loaded squads in the NASL, so surely the team’s focus for the next 3-4 signings will be defenders and holding midfielders.

This will be Puerto’s first non-Honduran club team in his career. He’s previously played for Marathon, CD Honduras, Olimpia and RCD Espana. Photo credit: AP