{"id":520324,"date":"2019-05-29T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20190527-thebeast-2022\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T07:34:06","slug":"20190527-thebeast-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20190527-thebeast-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"#TheBeast&#8230; 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After four successful years in Romania, at the ranks of FC Vaslui Fotbal and FC Steaua Bucure\u0219ti, <strong>Fernando Varela<\/strong> decided to accept PAOK\u2019s offer in the summer of 2016. He penned his contract, took his family and they settled in Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n<p>None of them could have imagined what the following years would bring. Three Greek Cup trophies, one league title, innumerable individual accolades and a unique emotional bond with the club and the city, unlike anything the Varela Family had experienced until then.<\/p>\n<p>After a new cycle of negotiations, an agreement was reached \u2013meaning, <strong>The Beast<\/strong>, his wife and their three children won\u2019t go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The centre-back from Cape Verde accepted the extension proposal of PAOK FC and penned a contract linking him with the club until June 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A star player of the last three seasons, ca ornerstone of <strong>R\u0103zvan Lucescu\u2019s<\/strong> team, a consummate professional, a strong personality on and off the field\u2026 Varela is here to stay and continue rewriting history books for PAOK.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck&#8230;. <strong>#TheBeast<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAOK FC announce they have extended the contract of Fernando Varela until June 2022.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":520288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5,5496],"tags":[1518,1576,2451,2457,2580,2907,4313,5723,8316,8347,12547],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.5.1 - 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