Tevez agrees to join Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua


Boca Juniors' player Carlos Tevez gestures as he wears an arm band with the shield of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense before the Argentine First Division soccer match against Racing Club to pay tribute to the victims of the plane crash in Colombia at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

(Reuters) - Carlos Tevez became the latest high-profile international player to join the Chinese Super League when Shanghai Shenhua confirmed the signing of the Argentine striker from his boyhood club Boca Juniors on Thursday.

"Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC reached a transfer agreement with Argentina Club Atletico Boca Juniors. Carlos Alberto Tevez is officially joined Shanghai Shenhua," the club said in a statement on its website (www.shenhuafc.com.cn).

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