Fred called it \u201cthe most beautiful love story\u201d. He left the Stade de Gerland for the Laranjeiras because, while was out injured, a youngster named Karim Benzema had deputised at the Lyon spearhead and made himself non-droppable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything so beautiful in my life,\u201d said an awestruck Fred of the reception the Fluminense fans gave him in 2009. \u201cI\u2019ve got goosebumps.\u201d<\/p>\n
When he was ruled out for three months, midway through the Brasileir\u00e3o, Flu freefell. When Fred returned, they were rock bottom and had, mathematically, a 99 per cent of relegation. \u2018Don Fred\u00f3n\u2019, in one of the most remarkable shows of escapism, copied the keys to Alcatraz and guided the men in burgundy, white and green stripes to safety.<\/p>\n
The following season he inspired them to their first championship crown in 26 years. Another Brasileir\u00e3o title followed in 2012. He finished as the competition\u2019s leading marksman on three occasions \u2013 a feat achieved only by Dada Maravilha, Tulio and Romario \u2013 within five campaigns. The Teofilo Otoni native hit 172 goals in 288 games, ripping up record after record in the process, before spending four years in his native Minas Gerais.<\/p>\n
Fred returned to Fluminense in 2020 and, two years later, enjoyed one of the most spectacular and emotional farewells in South American football history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fred called it \u201cthe most beautiful love story\u201d. He left the Stade de Gerland for the Laranjeiras because, while was out injured, a youngster named Karim Benzema had deputised at the Lyon spearhead and made himself non-droppable. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything so beautiful in my life,\u201d said an awestruck Fred of the reception the Fluminense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":920577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20966],"tags":[9648,27192],"class_list":["post-920576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-news","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/920577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}