Pattaya United have completed the signing of striker Rafinha from Brazilian club Paran\u00e1, the club announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Starting his professional career in Brazilian outfit Nacional-SP, Rafinha had been on loan to several clubs before landing at J-League Division 2 outfit Thespa Kusatsu in 2010.<\/p>\n
After spending a season and a half with\u00a0Thespa Kusatsu, the 30-year-old joined Gamba Osaka and then Ulsan Hyundai on loan.<\/p>\n
His impressive performance, which helped Ulsan Hyundai win 2012 AFC Champions League title, earned him a signing with\u00a0the Korean side.<\/p>\n
However, the Brazilian failed to impress in the 2014 season and was traded to\u00a0Yokohama F. Marinos<\/a>.<\/p>\n His poor form in the Far East lead Rafinha to a return to native Brazilian club Audax in 2017, before joining Parana in the same year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pattaya United have completed the signing of striker Rafinha from Brazilian club Paran\u00e1, the club announced on Sunday. Starting his professional career in Brazilian outfit Nacional-SP, Rafinha had been on loan to several clubs before landing at J-League Division 2 outfit Thespa Kusatsu in 2010. After spending a season and a half with\u00a0Thespa Kusatsu, the 30-year-old joined Gamba Osaka and then Ulsan Hyundai on loan. His impressive performance, which helped Ulsan Hyundai win 2012 AFC Champions League title, earned him a signing with\u00a0the Korean side. However, the Brazilian failed to impress in the 2014 season and was traded to\u00a0Yokohama F. Marinos. His poor form in the Far East lead Rafinha … Continue reading “Brazilian striker Rafinha joins Pattaya United”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[691,620,228],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-pattaya-united","tag-thai-league-t1","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}