Where is Jo playing now? Former CSKA Moscow striker Jo returned to his native Corinthians

Juan Alves de Assis Silva(Port.-Br. Joo Alves de Assis Silva; March 20, 1987, Sao Paulo), better known as Jo(port.-braz. J) - Brazilian footballer, striker of the Corinthians club. A student of the Corinthians club, he also played for CSKA Moscow, Manchester City and other clubs. Brazilian national team player.

Biography

João Alves de Assis Silva was born on March 20, 1987 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jo grew up in the poor area of ​​Sapopemba. Jo's father was also a football player, he played for the Guarani Admananita and Itumbiara clubs. In 1997, Jo entered the football school of the Corinthians club. In 2002, he received a call to the youth team of Brazil, in the same year, Jo became the owner of the Brazilian Cup among youth teams. On June 29, 2003, Jo made his debut for Corinthians in a match against Guarani (Bage), thus becoming the youngest player in the history of the club. He scored his first goal for Corinthians in August of the same year. In 2005, Jo became the champion of Brazil. In three seasons at Corinthians, Jo made 113 league appearances and scored 18 goals.

In December 2005, Jo signed a five-year contract with CSKA Moscow, as he later admitted - because of the money with which he managed to provide for his family. For the army team, Jo made his debut at the First Channel Cup - he scored the first goal against Shakhtar Donetsk. In the 2006 season, Jo became the top scorer of CSKA, scoring 14 goals in the first round of the championship (of which he scored 4 in one match against the Yaroslavl "Shinnik", thus making "poker"). However, an injury did not allow him to continue participating in the scorer race, and Jo became only the second goal scorer in the championship (after Roman Pavlyuchenko - 18 goals). For his services, he received the Golden Horseshoe award from the team's fans.

In 2007, Jo did not go to the America's Cup to play for the Brazilian national team at youth championship world, and then for the first time played for the adult national team of Brazil in a friendly match against Turkey (0:0), coming on as a substitute. In the 2007 season, Jo became CSKA's top scorer for the second time in his career with 13 goals, and the official magazine UEFA Champions named Jo one of the top five young stars in Europe. The Brazilian started the 2008 season successfully, scoring 3 goals in 8 matches.

On July 2, 2008, Jo signed a contract with the English club Manchester City. The deal amounted to 18 million pounds, which was at that time a transfer record for the Manchester club, the duration of the contract was 4 years. Later, the British edition of The Telegraph included this transfer in the list of the worst in the history of the Premier League. After moving to an English club, Jo performed at Olympic Games, where, thanks to two goals in the match for 3rd place, he won bronze medals with the Brazilian national team.

In 2009, he was first given a six-month loan to Everton, and then the club extended it for another year. But in the winter of 2010, the Liverpool club terminated the agreement with him for unauthorized departure to Brazil. Jo made 15 appearances for Everton and scored 6 goals.

On January 21, 2010, he was loaned to Turkish Galatasaray until the end of the season. On July 20, 2011, Jo's transfer to the Brazilian Internacional was officially announced, which he left a year later due to disciplinary problems.

Since May 2012, he played for Atlético Mineiro, where he moved for 2.5 million euros. From the very first games, he began to score for his new club. In 2013, Jo was one of the key players who led Atlético to the club's first ever Copa Libertadores victory. Along with Ronaldinho, Victor and Pierre, he became one of 4 players who played all 14 matches of the tournament as part of his team. In addition, Jo became the top scorer of the tournament with 7 goals. In the return final match against Olimpia Asuncion, it was Jo who opened the scoring, and then the striker successfully converted his penalty in the post-match series (2:0, 4:3 - on penalties; the first game - 0:2).

For the first time since 2007, Jo was called up to the 2013 Confederations Cup squad and entered the field for Brazil against Japan, replacing Fred in the 81st minute. 12 minutes later, Jo scored a goal against Japan, setting the final score 3-0 in favor of the Brazilians. He dedicated this goal to CSKA Moscow, where he spent his youth. In the second match of this tournament, Jo came on as a substitute in the 83rd minute and scored in the 93rd minute. In November 2013 head coach Brazilian national team Luis Felipe Scolari determined the backbone of the team to participate in the home World Cup in 2014 - Jo was on his list. On July 1, 2015, Jo signed a three-year contract with Al Shabab from Dubai.

"Fast gazelle" - football player Jo received such a nickname due to his high speed and sharpness, thanks to which he shone on the fields of Brazil and Russia, regularly upsetting goalkeepers of rivals goals scored. At one time he was considered one of the most promising young forwards playing in Europe, but he decided to try his hand at the English Premier League and, unable to adapt to the tough style of play, returned to his homeland in Brazil.

Speed ​​multiplied by technique

Football player Jo, whose photo is familiar to all fans of CSKA and Corinthians, continues to play football at a high level, having long since left European fields. This is a very high-speed and technical striker, throughout the match forcing pressure on other people's goals.

Tall, long-legged, football player Jo, however, has excellent control of his body and is well coordinated. With a good vision of the field and a good passing culture, he is able to play a long forward, taking part in the organization and development of attacks.

The Brazilian is not the most athletic player, so he is not very good at dealing with defenders within the penalty area, where the ability to simply push through opponents with mass and power is required. He feels more free where there is enough space to accelerate and beat opponents at speed.

Certain criticism was caused by his actions when playing on the defensive. Not the most athletic football player, Jo was reluctant to go to hard martial arts in the selection of the ball, preferring to shift the responsibility for this to his partners. This was one of the reasons for his unsuccessful performances in England, where the concentration of hard joints and tackles per square meter of the field went off scale and was the highest in Europe.

Becoming a striker

Juan Alves de Assis Silva, or simply Jo, was born in 1987 in Sao Paulo. As the son of a professional footballer, he never thought of anything else than playing the most popular sport in Brazil. In 1997, he entered the football school of the legendary Corinthia, where he stood out among his peers with extraordinary technique and remarkable sports intelligence.

Since 2002, Jo has been regularly called up to various junior and youth teams of Brazil, having won many international awards. In 2003, the Sao Paulo native played for Corinthians for the first time, becoming the youngest debutant in the club's history.

For three seasons, he played more than a hundred matches, scoring 13 goals. The performance, of course, is not amazing, but it should be noted that the role of the main snipers was assigned to other players, Jo did a huge amount of useful work in organizing the game.

"Golden Horseshoe" for "Fast Gazelle"

In 2005, Jo's talent was spotted on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Many European clubs were interested in the services of a promising striker, but CSKA Moscow, who signed a contract with a football player, was the fastest to navigate.

In Russia, the guy from Sao Paulo did not have any problems with adaptation, because by that time a solid Brazilian diaspora had gathered in the army club, including Wagner, Dudu, Carvalho. A plastic, technical football player, Jo stood out against the background of predictable and straightforward Russian strikers.

With the help of his Brazilian clubmates, he started his career at his new club very brightly, scoring 14 goals in the first round of the national championship. However, due to injury, he missed the second half of the season, remaining in second place in the scoring race.

Nevertheless, the admiring fans of the army team, for their part, encouraged the new favorite with the Golden Horseshoe award for outstanding goalscoring skills.

The so-called "Second Season Syndrome" did not hit CSKA's Jo and he continued to score, becoming the club's top scorer with 13 goals in 2007. Then even the official UEFA magazine included him in the top five best young football players in Europe.

A crisis

In 2008, Manchester City, then not yet the richest superclub, shelled out £ 18 million for footballer Jo, which was the most expensive transfer in the history of the English team. However, as is often the case, the English Premier League has become a kind of purgatory for a technical, but not very athletic player.

Veron, Di Maria, Forlan - they were all extremely talented guys, but in the conditions of super-tough English football they were lost and could not show their best qualities. The same fate befell Jo, who in three years with Manchester City played only 21 matches, scoring a single goal. Most of the time he wandered around on loan, having played at Everton, Galatasaray.

Disillusioned with European realities, Jo returned to his homeland, where, after a series of unsuccessful transitions, he found himself in Atlético Mineiro and even earned a call to the national team to participate in the 2010 World Cup. Now the talented striker plays in his native Corinthians, continuing to score regularly in the Brazilian championship.

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There were no questions at all which school the boy would go to, since his father was a football player. As a result, after watching the boy ended up in the football school of the Corinthians club. It was there that Joao's potential was revealed, and a few years later the young player began to be called up to the Brazilian youth team. In mid-2003, Jo made his debut in the main team of Corinthians, it is worth noting that the boy was only sixteen years old at that time. It took Joao about two months to distinguish himself for his team for the first time. In total, Jo spent three seasons with Corinthians, scoring 18 goals in 113 matches. The indicator, of course, is not outstanding, but European scouts became interested in a tall young football player.

At the end of 2005, Jo left Brazil and ended up in Russia, in the capital's CSKA. The contract was concluded for five years, and the cost was $ 5 million. The football player made his debut for his new team a couple of months later, in a match against Shakhtar Donetsk at the Channel One Cup. Joao started his first season in the Russian Championship just great, scoring 14 goals in only half of the championship, but an injury did not allow him to build on success, but in the end, Jo was on the second line of the top scorers in 2006. It should be noted that the Brazilian scored "poker" in the match against Yaroslavl "Shinnik".

Having recovered from the injury, Joao returned to action and continued to score, i.e. fulfill the intended purpose for which it was bought. Speaking for the Moscow army, Jo became the champion of Russia and the two-time winner of the Cup of the country. However, in July 2008, the management of CSKA decided to sell the Brazilian to the English Manchester United for a decent amount of 18 million pounds, which was a record purchase for an English club at that time. But it didn’t work for the guy, in the new club, Jo could not gain a foothold in starting lineup and almost immediately was loaned to Everton. It would seem that the football player was fixed at the base of the club, but no, the travel continued, and in 2010 the Brazilian ended up in the Turkish Galatasaray (also on loan). On July 20, 2011, the wanderings ended and Jo returned home, moving to the Brazilian Internacional.

Awards

2001, 2003 - Champion of the State of Sao Paulo (2).
2002 - Winner of the Brazil Cup among youth teams.
2005 - Champion of Brazil.
2005/06, 2007/08 - Winner of the Russian Cup (2).
2006 - Champion of Russia.
2006, 2007 - Winner of the Russian Super Cup (2).
2007 - Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship.
2008 - Silver medalist of the Russian Championship.
2008 - Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games.

Jo burns in Corinthians. Why not remember how the four Brazilians from CSKA are doing, which made a splash in the mid-2000s?

Jo, along with Corinthians, is in first place in the Brazilian championship. The former CSKA forward scored 7 goals in 12 starting rounds. In CSKA, however, at first he played even more effectively. We recall where each of the four Jo-Carvalho-Wagner Love-Dudu is now, who smashed everyone in the RFPL a dozen years ago.

Jo (30 years old)

In CSKA: 2006-2008

Jo is the player who has traveled the most. After the RFPL, he played in five more countries: England (Manchester City, Everton), Turkey (Galatasaray), Brazil (Internacional, Atlético Mineiro), UAE (Al Shabab) and China ("Jiangsu Suning").

Last year, Jo had to leave China due to the limit on foreign players. The lean striker went into the shadows, and then suddenly gave a candid interview to Brazilian journalists. Jo admitted that he was addicted to alcohol, drinking all night even with his wife and children, sometimes it was not clear where.

Corinthians believed in Jo again. The team that brought up the striker. In the system of this club, for 11 years he went through all the children's and youth teams, and then played in the Brazilian championship. Apparently, Jo's head began to think in the right direction, and the player took the chance. Corinthians are now in first place in the championship with a nine-point lead. In many ways, this is the merit of Jo, who consistently comes out in the starting lineup. For 12 rounds on account of his 7 goals and 3 assists.

Dudu (34 years old)

In CSKA: 2005-2008

Each of the four soldiers traveled a lot after leaving CSKA. Dudu played in Brazil and Greece, but his transfer to Maccabi turned out to be the most mysterious. He moved there as a free agent, but did not play a single match in the Israeli championship.

Six months later, Dudu fled to the team from his hometown of Fortaleza. The midfielder was not even embarrassed by the fact that the team played in Serie C (the third most powerful league). As part of Fortaleza, Dudu won the state championship twice (2015 and 2016), after which the midfielder, despite his age, was invited to Botafogo.

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Wagner Love (33 years old)

In CSKA: 2004-2009, 2010-2011, 2013

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Now Vagner Love is preparing for the new season of the Turkish Championship. After a not very successful period in Monaco, the ex-soldier forges the glory of Alanyaspor. Last season, the striker became the top scorer in the Turkish league with 23 goals in 28 matches. Wagner regularly takes penalties and is recognized as the best player in matches. It is curious that twice Wagner Love was placed as a midfielder. I remember that even in Russia, he often gravitated towards sinking into the center of the field to start attacks.

Daniel Carvalho (34 years old)

Carvalho is the only one of the army four who is not playing at a serious level now. In 2013, due to problems with being overweight, he ended his professional career. But two years later, he lost weight and returned to the level of the Brazilian championship. We talked in detail about where Carvalho found motivation.

Of the fantastic four Brazilians that CSKA had 10 years ago, Carvalho seemed to be perhaps the most talented. His role was key in CSKA's victory in the UEFA Cup. However, he did not play at a high level for long. Less gifted Dudu (also born in 1983) keeps at the level of the Brazilian championship. Jo overcame alcohol problems and is leading in the same tournament. Wagner shines in the Turkish Super League. But Daniel Carvalho, it seems, has already retired.

Career Jo was quite typical up to a certain point. In his youth, he was able to prove himself in Corinthians. When the chance arose to leave for Europe, he signed a five-year contract with CSKA. Later, the football player admitted that he agreed to a transfer to Moscow because of the money. The attacker then left for

Manchester City, where he achieved shameful statistics for the striker: 1 goal in 21 matches. The Brazilian went on loan to Everton and Galatasaray, but there his results were not much better. Then in his career was Brazil and the United Arab Emirates. And then Jo ended up in China.

More or less all legionnaires go to this country to earn huge money. Investment in Chinese football has come from local corporations. And they began to invest in football because of the interest in the game from the General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping. In Chinese football, they pay so much that foreign players are even ready to give up their favorite instagram. This network was temporarily blocked after the protests in Hong Kong in September 2014.

Things didn’t go well for Jo even in the Chinese championship, where legionnaires are provided with the most comfortable conditions. And it’s not even about performance - it was no longer shameful, not bad, but mediocre (9 goals per

Things didn’t go well for Jo even in the Chinese Championship, where legionnaires are provided with the most comfortable conditions

24 matches). The football player was put up for transfer and transferred to the double due to the limit on foreign players. According to the regulations of the Chinese league, each team must have no more than five foreigners. Jiangsu Suning sign Colombia striker Roger Martinez, so Jo was transferred to the double. Incidentally, the same thing happened to Asamoah Gyanom to Shanghai SIPG after Hulk's transfer.

So Jo was left without a club this summer. He is 29 years old and does not play in official matches to this day. Non-obvious perspectives, criticism of the Brazilian press. It seemed that nowhere could be worse, but suddenly the striker gave a sensational interview to the main Brazilian sports portal GloboEsporte. The football player admitted that he had serious problems with alcohol.

“You go to a bar, then you accidentally find yourself in some other institution. You meet friends there and drink and drink and drink all night long. In the morning I went further to one of my friends. At some point, I caught on. God, what's happening to me? What am I doing? Why do I drink at home with my wife? For two days I could have enough, then again broke down. Parties were not my priority. I liked drinking at home. Alcohol has overshadowed other interests, it has become the essence of everything,” said Jo.

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The football player admitted that he had a serious problem with alcohol

“We distanced ourselves from each other. I left Brazil and lost touch with him. I think that he is an outstanding footballer. I learned a lot from him on the field. Everyone has their own life. If it seems to him that he is doing everything right, then let him - this is his choice. If one day I have the opportunity to talk to him one on one, I will tell him about myself. I cannot say that there is no God in his life. He is. And if he listened to him, then 10 times he would become the best football player in the world. After such revelations, criticism of the Brazilian press subsided, and just the other day, one of the most popular clubs in Brazil, Corinthians, announced that it had agreed on the transfer of a football player. True, he will not be able to take part in official matches yet.