体坛英语新闻：River Plate excludes Funes Mori twins

BUENOS AIRES, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Soccer players and 23-year-old twins Rogelio Gabriel and Ramiro Funes Mori, were excluded Friday from Argentina's club River Plate for rejecting to sign a contract extension.

The contracts of both players with River will expire in one year, so afterwards the transfer ticket will be in their possession.

On Thursday, Daniel Passarella, River's president Daniel Passarella, returned from Europe, where he tried to sell their contracts, but he did not achieve it.

In January 2011, Portugal's Benfica offered 8.5 million euros (some more than one million U.S. dollars) for Rogelio Gabriel, but Passarella rejected the proposal because he considered it was not enough.

Later, in August 2011, Netherland's PSV Eindhoven offered 5 million dollars, which was also rejected by Passarella.

Despite Rogelio Gabriel is considered a player with great technique and is praised by his partners, he has shown a slack level and has failed to score in many occasions.

Ramiro is left defender and in October 2012 he broke the left knee's cruciate ligaments, so he was inactive for more than six months.

The twins born on July 11, 1991, took part in the United States broadcasting company Univision's soccer reality show called "Dream MLS". In that time, the Funes family lived in the U.S.

Among 2,000 participants, Rogelio Gabriel and Ramiro were finalists. Rogelio won to enter Dallas FC team, where he played some days in the junior division.

Later, the twins were offered to make a test in Britain's Chelsea, when River's 1992 junior team was taking part in an international tournament. Then, River was interested in the twins and included them in February 2009, though currently did not consider them to take part in the pre-season.