Just now, a player named Alexander Pato sent his own blessings to Tianjin, which is struggling with the epidemic, on his social media, and even earlier on the New Year, Pato sent New Year's greetings to Chinese fans. The name Pato is very familiar to the city of Tianjin and Tianjin football, in December 2017, the era of Golden Dollar Football in the Chinese Super League continued, Pato parachuted into Tianjin Quanjian for 18 million euros, Pato originally joined this team, which is the predecessor of the current Tianjin Tianhai Club. From 2017 to 2019, in two seasons, Pato scored 36 goals in 60 games with Tianjin. The Tianjin team became the strongest team in the Chinese Super League at that time, second only to Guangzhou Evergrande and Beijing Guoan.
In that year's AFC Champions League, Tianjin team reached the semi-finals with the help of Pato. A highlight in the team's history. Nowadays, whether it is Pato himself, or the Tianjin team itself, or even the Chinese Super League, they are already human. Looking at other foreign aides who have played in the Chinese Super League, or some naturalized teams as a reference, it is not easy for Pato to remember the city of Tianjin and the Chinese fans to this day.
High and low Pato took a roller coaster ride in the Baliga and left the field in a daze
After leaving the Chinese Super League, Pato returned to the Bajia League in the year of his establishment, originally fans thought that the talented player who won the European Golden Boy Award in the past could find himself again in the middle and late stages of his career, but unfortunately, in the end, Pato was not able to successfully stay in the Baliga, and finally he chose the American Professional League, which is more suitable for the pension. When Pato returned to São Paulo, he was given endless hope by the fans, and he did not disappoint everyone at the beginning, a Brazilian genius who played in the Chinese Super League for two years, and scored again in the first game after returning to São Paulo, once stunning the Brazilian league.
However, unfortunately, in the following matches, Pato as the team's starter in 33 games, helped São Paulo score a total of 9 goals, such a report card has been lower than the fans expected of him, compared to his performance in the Chinese Super League, Pato returned to São Paulo, obviously can no longer support the value of 18 million euros. At that time, Pato received a salary of 1.5 million euros in São Paulo, but in the League One, it was still a big burden for São Paulo, where he had played. And the 9-goal record in 33 games is not enough for the club to choose to keep him. In the end, Pato had to go far away to Orlando.
Looking back at the past when he was a teenager, his debut became famous in the world
In the winter of 2006, Pato, who had just signed his first contract with Brazilian giants Brazil International, helped Brazil International win palmeiras in the first game of his career, in which Pato scored 1 goal plus 3 assists, and scored an assist hat-trick in the first game. Such a performance is enough to trigger everyone's attention, and Pato's career is destined not to end flat.
In the second year alone, Pato came to AC Milan for 22 million euros. At that time, the transfer fee of more than 20 million yuan was not a small amount, not to mention that Pato was only a young player who had just come of age. AC Milan dared to include Pato under his command, although it is a strength, more importantly, Pato's performance in the Baliga has won the trust of AC Milan's top brass, and they are willing to spend such a huge amount of money to make a big bet on Pato.
Junior Pato swept across the European world, and the Camp Nou stadium lost its color
After joining AC Milan, Pato ushered in the highlight of his career, and at the age of 19, Pato won the Best Rookie of the Year oscars in serie A with his top performance. The following year, he won the European Golden Boy Award directly, and in retrospect, Pato was truly mesmerizing during that time. To this day, countless fans still clearly remember that in the Life and Death Battle of the Champions League, Pato, who played in the AC Milan shirt, only took 24 seconds to penetrate the door of Barca at the peak, and Pato's performance overshadowed the superstars of camp Nou in a moment.
In short, in the first few seasons of joining AC Milan, Pato used countless highlights to give back the trust of the team executives for himself, and the outside world also began to put all the spotlight on him, and even Pato was regarded as Kaka's twin brother at that time, as the teammate of the emperor Ibrahimovic, Pato not only conquered countless opponents, but also impressed the picky Ibrahimovic. I have to admit that Pato is the most remarkable teammate he has met at AC Milan. At that time, Pato was Milan's top scorer alongside Ibrahimovic.
The European Golden Boy's talent was overdrawn, and after all, Jiang Lang was exhausted
However, God is really stingy for Pato, just when countless fans in the world are expecting where Pato's ceiling is, everyone did not expect that the highlight period of just a few years would become the peak of Pato's career.
After all, no one is perfect, when Pato was famous in the football world, his affair began to appear on the front page of the major newspapers at that time, and the negative news became a chewing gum that Pato could not shake off at his feet, and what was worse, after years of hard fighting, Pato, whose body had not yet reached its peak state, was plagued by injuries and diseases. Under such internal and external troubles, Pato's career curve began to turn around, and at this time, Pato understood that he could no longer catch up with his former self. Pato, who was originally favored by God, was thus withdrawn by God's talent, and it was Jiang Lang who finally exhausted it. More ironically, AC Milan, which originally spent 22 million euros to bring in Pato, only recovered 15 million euros when it sent Pato to the Baliga. Whether this deal is a profit or a loss, I am afraid that only AC Milan himself knows it.
8 years and 6 teams, Pato became a football tramp
In the past 8 years, Pato has turned 6 teams and become a tramp in world football, fortunately, Pato's family is rich enough to not pay too much attention to salary, even when the Tianjin team encountered difficulties, Pato also left the team by taking the initiative to pay money to terminate the contract. Such a friendly breakup is also quite rare in world football. To this day, I am afraid that there are people in tianjin who are reading Pato's good.
After leaving the Chinese Super League and returning to the First Division, Pato also encountered the problem of re-employment in the Baliga, São Paulo sent away the year of Pato because of 1.5 million euros, and this time unemployed, Pato directly did not find any job for half a year, the former European golden boy, looking to be in his own year, because there was no team to take in and was forced to retire, at this time, the MLB Orlando extended an olive branch to him.
The background of the twilight of his career left his hometown, only for the last stubbornness of football in his heart
From Serie A AC Milan to São Paulo in the Bajia, and now to Orlando, Pato's career journey is particularly similar to his original template player Kaka, but Kaka at that time was through thousands of sails, and finally chose the pension life in the twilight of his career. And before Pato could prove himself, he was already thirty. As we all know, although Pato was poor at an early age, his wife, including himself, has accumulated a lot of wealth, and the reason why he is unwilling to choose this time to retire is nothing more than to rely on his inner stubbornness to chase after his former self.
What many people don't know is that in fact, Pato and Orlando's contract just expired some time ago and the first dozen hours of the Chinese fans' New Year's Greeting, and the two sides still have not reached a renewal agreement. Any fan knows that if there is no miracle, Pato will only retire from Orlando or another unknown team one day in the future and return home to end his career once and for all. No one, including Pato himself, could have imagined that the former European Golden Boy would be in today's situation, and the former Milan comrade Ibrahimovic, who was older than him, was still smiling proud of Serie A, and he could only choose to end, as a fan, he could only be overwhelmed, and wished him well in the future.