Fred (soccer player, 1983)

Fred
Fred at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup
Personnel
Surname	Frederico Chaves Guedes
birthday	3rd October 1983
place of birth	Teófilo Otoni ,  Brazil
size	185 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002-2004	America Mineiro	26 (9) 00
2004-2005	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	43 0(40)
2005-2009	Olympique Lyon	88 0(34)
2009-2016	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	233 (142)
2016-2017	Atlético Mineiro	69 0(34)
2018-2020	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	56 0(21)
2020–	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro	0 00(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005-2014	Brazil	39 (18)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 2, 2020 2 Status: end of career

Fred ( ˈfrɛd (ʒ) i ), real name Frederico Chaves Guedes (born October 3, 1983 in Teófilo Otoni ), is a Brazilian soccer player . The 1.85 meter tall center forward began his playing career with América Mineiro and Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte . From 2005 to 2009 he won three French championships and one cup with Olympique Lyon . After returning to Brazil, he won two Brazilian championships with Fluminense Rio de Janeiro . With the Brazilian national team , he participated in the World Championships in 2006 and 2014 as well as 2007 and 2011 at the Copa America in part.

Career

Started at América Mineiro and Cruzeiro in Belo Horizonte

Fred began his career in 2002 at América Mineiro in Belo Horizonte . There he scored the fastest goal in Brazilian football history in the youth tournament Copa São Paulo de Juniores against Vila Nova FC when he shot from the center line immediately after kick-off and scored in 3.17 seconds. This is also often viewed as a world record. From 2003 he joined the América fighting team, with whom he was third at the state championship of Minas Gerais that same year . He was second on the scorers list with ten hits. In the national championship he was with America 22nd of the 24-club second division. The following year he retired with America at the state championship in the semifinals against the master of the year Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte .

In August 2004 he moved to Cruzeiro. But since there was a preliminary contract with Feyenoord Rotterdam , the Dutch club received the player Gérson Magrão in exchange from Cruzeiro and retained 10% of the transfer rights to Fred. Fred was in 2004 with Cruzeiro 13th in the first division of the national championship and was the club's top scorer with 14 hits in 24 appearances. The following year he penetrated with Cruzeiro in the finals of the state championship. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, Cruzeiro lost to Ipatinga FC 2-1 in the second leg. Fred scored the two goals for his team in this game and was the top scorer of the competition with a total of 14 goals. By August he also played in the first half of the national championship and scored ten goals for Cruzeiro, who finished 8th at the end of the season. In the cup competition , Cruzeiro failed in the semifinals at the following tournament winner, the second division Paulista FC from Jundiaí (SP), with 1: 3 and 3: 2. Fred scored three goals in these matches, was the top scorer of the competition with a total of 15 goals in nine games and set a new record.

Olympique Lyon and World Cup 2006

On April 27, 2005, Fred played his first game for the Brazilian national soccer team against Guatemala. In the 3-0 win at the Estádio do Pacaembu in São Paulo , he came on for Robinho in the second half .

In mid-2005 he moved to Olympique Lyon for 15 million euros . The International Sports Court had to decide on the distribution of the transfer fee . Under Feyenoord, based on the existing agreements from 2004, 10% and Fred himself 20%. With Olympique Lyon he was French champion in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Last year he won the cup with Lyon with a 1-0 final win after extra time against Paris Saint-Germain . During his time in France, Fred struggled with injuries and most recently lost his regular place to Milan Baroš and Karim Benzema . In December 2008 he therefore asked for approval. After playing his last game for Lyon on January 10, 2009, he was released from his contract in late February.

In 2006 he was part of the squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, where he scored 2-0 in the preliminary round match on June 18 against Australia shortly after being substituted on with his first international goal . This was his only game in the tournament in which Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals. In 2007 he was in the Brazilian squad for the Copa America in Venezuela . Brazil won the tournament, but Fred was not used.

Fluminense Rio de Janeiro and Copa América 2011

In March 2009, Fred joined Fluminense Rio de Janeiro on a free transfer . In his first game at the club, he scored two goals in the national championship game against Macaé EFC . In the same year he reached the finals of the Copa Sudamericana with the club from Rio de Janeiro . After a 5-1 defeat in the first leg at the Ecuadorian club LDU Quito , Fred, who had been promoted to captaincy, contributed to the 2-0 win in the second leg at Maracanã . In the 76th minute of the game, he was expelled from the field after a discussion with the referee during which he touched the referee. In the Brazilian championship Fluminense was 16th and narrowly escaped relegation. Fred scored 12 goals this season.

In 2010 he won the third national championship in club history with Fluminense. In 2011 he was the top scorer with ten goals at the state championship in Rio de Janeiro , in which Fluminense finished second.

In mid-2011, he took part with Brazil in the Copa America in Argentina , where he played four games and scored one goal. In the 2-0 defeat in the quarterfinals against Paraguay, he missed the decisive penalty. In September he won with Brazil as Superclássico das Américas neuaufgelegte Roca Cup , a competition between Argentina and Brazil. After the first leg ended 0-0, Fred came on in the 73rd minute with a score of 1-0 for Brazil in the second leg in Belém . The final score was 2-0.

At the Brazilian championship held in the second half of the year, Fluminense took third place after the departure of coach Muricy Ramalho and the Argentinian playmaker Darío Conca . Fred was with 22 goals, second scorer, behind Borges of Santos , who could more score a goal. In 2011 he was named the best striker in the Brazilian championship alongside Neymar and was awarded a Bola de Prata for this. At the award ceremony of the Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão , he was included in the team of the season.

In 2012 he won the state championship of Rio de Janeiro with Fluzão , now under coach Abel Braga , with two final victories against Botafogo FR . The second Brazilian national championship followed in the second half of the year.

New clubs in Belo Horizonte

In 2016, Fred left FLU after seven years for Belo Horizonte. He signed a two-year contract with league rivals Atlético Mineiro . With the club, Fred was able to win the state championship in Minas Gerais in 2017 . At the end of 2017, his premature move to local rival Cruzeiro became known. Fred left Atlético despite an ongoing contract. The three-year contract with Cruzeiro stipulated that Cruzeiro the expected penalty of 10 million Real takes over. To be on the safe side, a clause was included in the contract that grants Fred rights to Cruzeiro's income from the proceeds of the television rights if Cruzeiro does not pay the fine. Fred received 10 million reals and an annual salary of two million reals for the move from Cruzeiro. In March 2018, Fred had to undergo knee surgery. He missed the final in the state championship and the start of the championship round. It was not until the 27th matchday of the 2018 championship that Fred returned to a competitive game. In the game against Palmeiras São Paulo he came on for Raniel in the 62nd minute . In January, Fred suffered a broken nose in a training game . He had to undergo an operation and thus missed the start of the 2019 national championship. In the 2019 season he made 54 appearances across all competitions in which he scored 21 goals. He could not save his club from relegating to the Série B for the first time . Cruzeiro got into massive financial difficulties in 2019 due to mismanagement. a. Don't pay salaries for a long time.

Back to Fluminense

At the end of May 2020 it was announced that Fred was going back to Rio de Janeiro to join Fluminense.

National team career 2013–2014

Fred (right, in a duel with Jérôme Boateng ) in Brazil's 7-1 semi-final defeat against Germany at the 2014 World Cup

The 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil was very successful for Fred. He scored five times (1 × against Uruguay, 2 × each against Italy and Spain) and was the most successful shooter of the tournament together with the Spaniard Fernando Torres (Torres, who scored 1 × against Nigeria and 4 × against Tahiti in the preliminary round, however, won the Title top scorer because he needed fewer minutes to score). Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari continued to trust Fred and added him to the squad for the 2014 World Cup . In the opening game of the World Cup against Croatia , he played by storm and hit the global headlines with a swallow : he dropped in the 70th minute of the game when the score was 1: 1 after a touch by defender Dejan Lovren in the penalty area and claimed a penalty for it. which the World Cup host actually got awarded. Neymar converted the penalty and Brazil finally beat the Croatians 3-1. In the third game against Cameroon, Fred scored his only goal at this World Cup. When the semi-final game against Germany was lost 7-1, the Brazilian spectators, with whom he had been unpopular for the entire World Cup due to his poor scoring and his technical weaknesses on the ball, whistled him in the second half every time he touched the ball and considered him also with screams. After losing the game for third place against the Netherlands, in which he was not included, Fred announced his resignation from the national team. He also expressed his fear, based on the public stigmatization of the Brazilian goalkeeper after the Maracanaço , "the new Barbosa of Brazil".

successes

Fred after winning the 2013 Confed Cup

Olympique Lyon

• French champion : 2006 , 2007 , 2008
• French cup winner : 2008

Fluminense

• Brazilian champion : 2010 , 2012
• State Championship of Rio de Janeiro : 2012
• Primeira Liga do Brasil: 2016
• Taça Rio : 2020

Atlético Mineiro

• State Championship of Minas Gerais : 2017

Cruzeiro

• State championship of Minas Gerais : 2018, 2019
• Copa do Brasil : 2018

National team

• Copa América : 2007 (not used)
• FIFA Confederations Cup : 2013
• World Championship fourth: 2014

Awards

• Top scorer:
  • Brazilian Série A : 2012 (20 goals), 2014 (18 goals), 2016 (14 goals)
  • Minas Gerais State Championship : 2005 (15 goals), 2017 (9 goals), 2019 (12 goals)
  • Copa do Brasil : 2005
  • National Championship of Rio de Janeiro : 2011 (10 goals)
• Bola de Ouro
  • Team of the Year (Bola de Prata): 2011
• Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão
  • Team of the year: 2011, 2012
  • Best Player: 2012
• State Championship of Minas Gerais
• Selection team: 2019 with Cruzeiro

Web links

Commons : Fred  - collection of images

• Fred Gol (website of Fred)
• Fred in the database of sambafoot.com (English)
• Fred in the database of footballdatabase.eu (English)
• Fred in the database of weltfussball.de
• Fred in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Fred in the soccerway.com database

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.sport1.de/de/fussball/wm/newspage_921588.html
2. ^ Em 2003, Fred marca o gol mais rápido da história do futebol mundial , Globo TV (video / as of March 1, 2012).
3. ↑ Brazil - Guatemala 27/04/2005: 3 - 0 , Sambafoot (as of March 1, 2012)
4. ^ Arbitration CAS 2005 / O / 985 Feyenoord Rotterdam NV v. Cruzeiro Esporte Club, award of 19 December 2006 ( Memento from 19 August 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 229 kB) , Tribunal Arbitral du Sport / Court of Arbitration for Sport , 19 December 2006.
5. ↑ Change to Cruzeiro 2017 , report on otempo.com.br of December 27, 2017, page in portugal, accessed on December 28, 2017
6. ↑ Cruzerio accepts contractual penalty , report on otempo.com.br from January 26, 2018, page in portugal, accessed on January 29, 2018
7. ↑ Salary at Cruzeiro 2018 , report on otempo.com.br of March 16, 2018, page in portug., Accessed on March 19, 2018
8. ↑ Knee surgery 2018 , report on globoesporte.globo.com from March 28, 2018, page in portug., Accessed on June 27, 2018
9. ↑ Use after injury 2018 , match report on scoresway.com, accessed on October 1, 2018
10. ↑ Broken nose 2019 , report on otempo.com.br from January 13, 2019, page in portugal, accessed on January 15, 2019
11. ↑ Change to Fluminense 2020 , report on otempo.com.br from May 31, 2020, page in portug., Accessed on June 3, 2020
12. ↑ Press: Schwalbinho saves Brazil - Soccer World Cup 2014 in Brazil - Augsburger Allgemeine
13. ↑ Brazil striker Fred: "For me the Seleção is over". Retrieved November 24, 2014 .