{"id":459021,"date":"2019-07-03T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=459021"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:53:43","slug":"joao-felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/03\/joao-felix\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid Complete Signing of Joao Felix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid have completed the signing of Benfica winger <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/8aafd64f\/Joao-Felix\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joao Felix<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/48859847\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a3113 million <\/a>in the biggest transfer of the summer so far. Details of Felix&#8217;s contract, such as length, are yet to be disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Joao Felix Signs For Atletico Madrid<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PureTalent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PureTalent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6oQX8dAUA6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6oQX8dAUA6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (@atletienglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atletienglish\/status\/1146479143334359041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Joao Felix &#8211; Career So Far<\/h2>\n<p>The Portuguese international star is a graduate of the Benfica academy. He made 30 appearances for Benfica B in LigaPro, the second division in Portugal. Felix scored seven goals during his two seasons playing for the reserve side.<\/p>\n<p>It was the beginning of last season that he made his first-team debut at the beginning of this season for Benfica, the 19-year-old has become one of the most sought after youngsters in Europe. Europe&#8217;s elite have been chasing Benfica for his services.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has been a sensation debut season for Joao Felix. He scored 18 goals and registered eight assists; unsurprising that he has received so much interest.<\/p>\n<p>His goals contributed to Benfica&#8217;s success during the 2018\/19 campaign. They won the Primeira liga for a record 37th time, finishing two points ahead of rivals Porto. Furthermore, they reached the semi-finals of both domestic cup competition as well as the quarter-finals of the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>Felix raised eyebrows across Europe when he scored a hat-trick in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final against Eintracht Frankfurt. As a result, Felix became the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Felix&#8217;s successes were rewarded by a call-up to the Portuguese national squad for the UEFA Nations League. He made his debut during their 1-0 win over Switzerland in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The hefty price tag is like to put immense pressure on the 19-year-old. However, he has already shown he can deal with pressure at the highest level, especially in Europe. As a result, fans across Europe will be keeping an eye on how the 19-year-old succeeds.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"H2NpKiAQTc9Pn-glbsT-GQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1150450918\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'H2NpKiAQTc9Pn-glbsT-GQ',sig:'Dy1Z5rNDJYQiFq7H3D_fuGcStEP5mdQ1sUWNNG6Biyk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1150450918',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid have completed the signing of Benfica winger Joao Felix for \u00a3113 million in the biggest transfer of the summer so far. Details of Felix&#8217;s contract, such as length, are yet to be disclosed. Joao Felix Signs For Atletico Madrid &nbsp; #PureTalent pic.twitter.com\/6oQX8dAUA6 \u2014 Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (@atletienglish) July 3, 2019 Joao Felix &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":472518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[210,687,3290,37,136],"class_list":["post-459021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-liga","category-featured","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-benfica","tag-joao-felix","tag-transfers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Jarvis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}