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Argentino de Quilmes Signs Alexis Zárate for Primera B Return After Sexual-Abuse Conviction

He remains under court-ordered restrictions through 2027 during a conditional release.

Overview

  • Argentino de Quilmes announced the 31-year-old defender as a reinforcement for the upcoming Primera B Metropolitana season.
  • Zárate obtained conditional release granted by the Chamber of Cassation on July 3, 2025, after serving roughly five years of a six-and-a-half-year sentence.
  • He must attend a masculinities workshop in Lomas de Zamora and keep a 500-meter distance from the victim until the sentence concludes in 2027.
  • Courts determined the abuse occurred on March 16, 2014, against Giuliana Peralta, with a conviction handed down in September 2017 and imprisonment beginning in 2020.
  • The signing has drawn public criticism and renewed debate from feminist organizations over professional reintegration of athletes convicted of gender-based violence.