{"id":15690,"date":"2025-07-21T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/?p=15690"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:46:40","slug":"cruzeiro-defender-officially-joins-european-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/news\/cruzeiro-defender-officially-joins-european-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruzeiro defender officially joins European team"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cruzeiro-defender-officially-joins-European-team.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cruzeiro defender officially joins European team\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cruzeiro-defender-officially-joins-European-team.png 512w, https:\/\/bbscore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cruzeiro-defender-officially-joins-European-team-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/bbscore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cruzeiro-defender-officially-joins-European-team-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We welcome Pedr\u00e3o to Pafos and look forward to his contributions on and off the pitch,&#8221; the Cypriot club posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cruzeiro<\/strong> defender <strong>Pedr\u00e3o<\/strong> was announced this Friday (July 18th) as a reinforcement for Pafos, a Cypriot team. The 21-year-old defender had been on loan at Ava\u00ed since the beginning of the year and has now taken a new step in his career.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pedr\u00e3o&#8217;s contract with the European club will run until the end of the 2025\/26 season. &#8220;We welcome Pedr\u00e3o to Pafos and look forward to his contributions on and off the field as we continue to build the future,&#8221; the Cypriot club posted on social media. The defender, revealed by Raposa, celebrated: &#8220;Happy and motivated for the start of this new challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pedr\u00e3o at Cruzeiro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pedr\u00e3o played for years in Cruzeiro&#8217;s youth academy. In 2022, he was selected for the first team for the first time and earned two caps: a 2-1 victory over Oper\u00e1rio Ferrovi\u00e1rio in the 10th round of the Brazilian Championship Series B; and a 2-1 loss to Fluminense in the first leg of the Copa do Brasil Round of 16. Over the following two years, he was available for the first team at times but never returned to the field. Meanwhile, he played for Raposa&#8217;s U-20 team. In December 2024, Pedr\u00e3o sealed a loan move to Ava\u00ed \u2013 initially, he was scheduled to remain until the end of 2025. He made 20 appearances for the Santa Catarina club.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We welcome Pedr\u00e3o to Pafos and look forward to his contributions on and off the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15692,"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions\/15692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}