{"id":24718,"date":"2020-10-29T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=24718"},"modified":"2025-04-26T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:59:14","slug":"negao-father-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/29\/negao-father-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00fanior Neg\u00e3o on fulfilling a ‘promise’ for his late father (Interview)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since joining South Korea in 2017, Neg\u00e3o has established himself as one of, if not, K League 1’s deadliest striker – scoring a staggering 69 goals in 91 games during the regular season for Daegu FC and Ulsan Hyundai.<\/p>\n

“I always say: I don’t know when, I don’t know where, but I want to play in Bazil again. Not only to try to prove myself but also because Brazilian football is different from any other. I want to feel the atmosphere of Brazilian football again because it’s different. I can say that since I play in Europe, Thailand and Korea. The atmosphere of a crowded Mineirao or Maracana is different.” The 33 years old told Dugout before naming the club he’d love the represent and the reason behind his preferred choice.<\/div>\n
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“My father s from Bahia and I have always seen the passion for Bahia. I grew up watching him watching Bahia games. I think it would be a gift for him, he is not with us anymore, but I think it would be a gift for him.”<\/div>\n
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This season Neg\u00e3o has netted 24 goals from 22 matches in the K League regular season plus 1 in 4 matches during the final round of the competitions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since joining South Korea in 2017, Neg\u00e3o has established himself as one of, if not, K League 1’s deadliest striker – scoring a staggering 69 goals in 91 games during the regular season for Daegu FC and Ulsan Hyundai. “I always say: I don’t know when, I don’t know where, but I want to play in Bazil again. Not only to try to prove myself but also because Brazilian football is different from any other. I want to feel the atmosphere of Brazilian football again because it’s different. I can say that since I play in Europe, Thailand and Korea. The atmosphere of a crowded Mineirao or Maracana is different.” … Continue reading “J\u00fanior Neg\u00e3o on fulfilling a ‘promise’ for his late father (Interview)”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":24721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[856,33],"tags":[2101,1302,1894],"class_list":["post-24718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-asia","category-south-korea","tag-junior-negrao","tag-k-league-1","tag-ulsan-hyundai-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718","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\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29164,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions\/29164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}