{"id":843791,"date":"2025-01-17T10:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dv4.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20250117-xronia-polla-taison\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:59:33","slug":"20250117-xronia-polla-taison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dv4.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20250117-xronia-polla-taison\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Taison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taison<\/strong> was born on\u00a0<strong>January<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>13, 1988<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>Pelotas<\/strong>, the eighth of 11 children in the family. He took his first steps in\u00a0<strong>Progreso<\/strong>. That was until\u00a0<strong>2005<\/strong>, when the then 17-year-old\u00a0<strong>Taison<\/strong>\u00a0found himself facing Internacional in a state championship game. A 3-2 win, a hat trick and the transfer to the opposition was sealed before the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>A period of training in the club\u2019s academies and the second team followed, and in 2008 he made his debut with the senior side. Since then he has never looked back, and within two years he became one of the most promising players in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He won a\u00a0<strong>Copa Sudamericana<\/strong>\u00a0and a\u00a0<strong>Copa Libertadores<\/strong>, got his name in all of the scouts black books all over\u00a0<strong>Europe<\/strong>, but\u00a0<strong>Metalist Kharkiv<\/strong>\u00a0won the race to sign him and gave him the ticket to cross the\u00a0<strong>Atlantic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And so in 2010, he went to\u00a0<strong>Ukraine<\/strong>\u00a0and started\u2026 to shine from day one. With\u00a0<strong>Metalist<\/strong>, he made 83 appearances, scored 20 goals, provided 26 assists and attracted the interest of Shakhtar Donetsk, who at that time were dominating the domestic league and playing well in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>His transfer was almost 13,000,000 euros.\u00a0<strong>Taison<\/strong>\u00a0made history with\u00a0<strong>Shakhtar<\/strong>. He played in 299 games, scored 55 goals, provided 78 assists, won six championships, five national cups, four Super Cups, played in the Champions League and Europa League, and became one of the most important players in the team\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>2016<\/strong>\u00a0came a great moment in\u00a0<strong>Taison\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0career as he was called up to the\u00a0<strong>Brazilian<\/strong>\u00a0national team. He played eight times for the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o, scoring a goal in a friendly against\u00a0<strong>Australia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>2021<\/strong>, his heart spoke to him.\u00a0<strong>Internacional<\/strong>\u00a0invited him to come back. Although he had offers from several other clubs, he couldn\u2019t refuse the call of home. He took a significant pay cut and returned to his former club, where he played a total of 155 games, scoring 17 goals and contributing 14 assists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taison<\/strong>\u00a0ended his contract with\u00a0<strong>Internacional<\/strong>\u00a0in January 2023 and accepted\u00a0<strong>PAOK\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0proposal for a one-and-a-half year contract.<\/p>\n<p>In his two years at the club, <strong>Taison<\/strong> has made <strong>96\u00a0<\/strong> appearances, scoring <strong>16<\/strong>\u00a0goals and providing\u00a0<strong>17<\/strong>\u00a0assists. The\u00a0<strong>Brazilian<\/strong>\u00a0is pivotal for\u00a0<strong>Razvan Lucescu\u2019s<\/strong> team, both on and off the pitch. As well as his excellent performances, he is also a role model for the younger players, whom he is always close to and makes sure to guide and advise them, while he also has one <strong>Stoiximan Super League<\/strong> winners&#8217; medal from the <strong>2023-24<\/strong> season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Birthday, Taison!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Brazilian attacking midfielder Taison turns 37 today, and PAOK FC would like to wish him many years of health, happiness and successes on both a personal and professional level.","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":843660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1520,5],"tags":[2378,2457,2534,3766,16019],"class_list":["post-843791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","tag--en","tag---en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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