{"id":297512,"date":"2021-08-20T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=297512"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T14:23:08","slug":"brazilian-football-player-awarded-in-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-football-player-awarded-in-the-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian football player awarded in the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian football player Igor Jesus, who plays for Shabab Al Ahli Dubai FC in the United Arab Emirates, was awarded in the Arab country this week. At age 20, he was elected best young player in the country\u2019s national football league, Pro League UAE. <em>Pictured above, Jesus (red jersey).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony for the 2020\/2021 season took place on Monday (16), in Abu Dhabi, with the presence of authorities, according to the official local news agency, Emirates News Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302961084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAM<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-countries-earned-five-gold-medals-at-olympics\/\">Arab countries won five gold medals at Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only players but others involved in the league were awarded. Jesus received the Golden Boy Award for the best young player born or resident in the UAE. The Golden Boy Award for the best\u00a0Emirati\u00a0young player went to Ali Saleh of Al Wasl FC.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was brought up by the junior categories of Coritiba FC, from the state of Paran\u00e1, Brazil. In 2019, he started playing for the Brazilian club\u2019s main team. He left it in October last year to play for Shabab Al Ahli.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Jesus was elected best young player in the Arab country\u2019s national football league. Having started his career in Coritiba FC, he now plays for Shabab Al Ahli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":297506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[23115,23117,23114,23119,23116,23120,23121,23122,23118,23123],"class_list":{"0":"post-297512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brazilian-football","9":"tag-brazilian-player-emirates","10":"tag-contract-igor-jesus","11":"tag-coritiba-en","12":"tag-football-emirates","13":"tag-igor-jesus-en","14":"tag-igor-jesus-coritiba-en","15":"tag-igor-shabab-al-ahli-en","16":"tag-player-emirates","17":"tag-shabab-al-ahli-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Igor Jesus was elected best young player in the Arab country\u2019s national football league. Having started his career in Coritiba FC, he now plays for Shabab Al Ahli.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}