Former\u00a0Juventus and Galatasaray midfielder Felipe Melo has been linked with a move to\u00a0Persija Jakarta, according to reports from Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Melo began his career for Flamengo and spent a two-season spell with the club.\u00a0Following impressive performances with Flamengo, Melo transferred to\u00a0Cruzeiro\u00a0in the summer of 2003 before being transferred to Cruzeiro\u00a0in the next season.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old had played for Bralizian clubs Gr\u00eamio and\u00a0Porto Alegre and decided to move to Spain with Real Mallorca prior to the 2005 season.<\/p>\n
He went on to enjoy spells with Real Sociedad, Almeria before enjoying\u00a0a superb stint with Fiorentina in his Serie A debut season in 2008.<\/p>\n
Melo had\u00a0signed for powerhouse Juventus in 2009 but failed to live up to the expectations.<\/p>\n
He then joined Inter Milan after two seasons with Turkish side Galatasaray in 2015, but made five Serie A appearances and decided to head back to his homeland side\u00a0Palmeiras.<\/p>\n
If signing with\u00a0Persija Jakarta, Melo will join his compatriot, winger\u00a0Bruno Lopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former\u00a0Juventus and Galatasaray midfielder Felipe Melo has been linked with a move to\u00a0Persija Jakarta, according to reports from Indonesia. Melo began his career for Flamengo and spent a two-season spell with the club.\u00a0Following impressive performances with Flamengo, Melo transferred to\u00a0Cruzeiro\u00a0in the summer of 2003 before being transferred to Cruzeiro\u00a0in the next season. The 34-year-old had played for Bralizian clubs Gr\u00eamio and\u00a0Porto Alegre and decided to move to Spain with Real Mallorca prior to the 2005 season. He went on to enjoy spells with Real Sociedad, Almeria before enjoying\u00a0a superb stint with Fiorentina in his Serie A debut season in 2008. Melo had\u00a0signed for powerhouse Juventus in 2009 but failed to … Continue reading “Former\u00a0Juventus midfielder Felipe Melo linked with a move to Persija Jakarta”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[643,901,228],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","tag-indonesia-liga-1","tag-persija-jakarta","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","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=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}