{"id":53,"date":"2008-07-23T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/2008\/07\/23\/afonso-alves-a-great-football-goal-scorer-from-brazil\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T19:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:43:04","slug":"afonso-alves-a-great-football-goal-scorer-from-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/2008\/07\/23\/afonso-alves-a-great-football-goal-scorer-from-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Afonso Alves a great football goal scorer from Brazil."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Afonso Alves Martins J\u00fanior a Brazilian soccer player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvesofficial.com\">Afonso Alves <\/a>Martins J\u00fanior was born January 30th 1981 and he is a Brazilian footballer. He plays as a striker for Middlesbrough and for Brazil. Afonso Alves started his career with Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro and thereafter he left for \u00d6rgyte in Gothenburg in Sweden, and two years later he left for Malm\u00f6 also in Sweden. He won the Swedish Champion title in the 2004-05 season with Malm\u00f6, in the next season Alves scored 14 goals in 24 games and Malm\u00f6 finished fifth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Afonso Alves moved to Heerenveen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2006 Afonso Alves moved to SC Heerenveen, where he followed in the footsteps of Ruud van Nistelrooy, Jon Dahl Tomasson and others. Afonso Alves is the most expensive player signing for Heerenveen, he had a price of 4.5 million euros.<br \/>\nIn 2007 Afonso Alves finished as top scorer of the Eredivisie with 34 goals, which is a club record. Alves is the third Brazilian footballer who became topscorer in the Dutch first division. He was a runner up in the race for the European Golden Boot.<br \/>\nAlves scored seven times in the game against Heracles Almelo. This was a new record for most goals scored in one game in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Transfer to Middlesbrough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afonso Alves transferred to Middlesbrough in January 2008 after month of speculation. The transfer happened in the eleventh hour. They paid \u00a312.7 million on a four-year-contract. His first two goals came in a game against Manchester United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afonso Alves Martins J\u00fanior a Brazilian soccer player. Afonso Alves Martins J\u00fanior was born January 30th 1981 and he is a Brazilian footballer. He plays as a striker for Middlesbrough and for Brazil. Afonso Alves started his career with Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro and thereafter he left for \u00d6rgyte in Gothenburg in Sweden, and two years later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,34,4,3,25,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officialfootballwebsites.com\/player\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}