{"id":697593,"date":"2022-08-08T22:39:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20220808-xronia-polla-nelson\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T09:10:45","slug":"20220808-xronia-polla-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20220808-xronia-polla-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Nelson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/?post_type=player&#038;p=633930\">Nelson Oliveira<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>was born on\u00a0<strong>August 8, 1991<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>Barcelos, \u200b\u200bPortugal<\/strong>. His first club as\u00a0<strong>Santa Maria<\/strong>\u00a0before moving to the\u00a0<strong>Braga\u00a0<\/strong>academies in\u00a0<strong>2003<\/strong>. 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That\u2019s where\u00a0<strong>Oliveira\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0first four professional goals came in a full season with 23 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to\u00a0<strong>Benfica<\/strong>\u00a0and made his first appearance in\u00a0<strong>October 2011,<\/strong>\u00a0fighting for a place in the squad. In the summer of\u00a0<strong>2012<\/strong>, he followed the loan path again, as the many and expensive transfers made by his club left him no option.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deportivo La Coruna<\/strong>\u00a0offered him the opportunity to test his skills outside\u00a0<strong>Portugal<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/?post_type=player&#038;p=633930\">Oliveira<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>spent one season in the\u00a0<strong>Primera Division<\/strong>, scoring four goals in 31 appearances. Loan spells continued into the\u00a0<strong>2013-14<\/strong>\u00a0season with\u00a0<strong>Rennes<\/strong>\u00a0being the next stop of his career. The\u00a0<strong>Portuguese<\/strong>\u00a0forward boosted his numbers in\u00a0<strong>France<\/strong>, scoring eight times in 36 games, while also providing two assists.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of\u00a0<strong>2014<\/strong>\u00a0he took another opportunity at\u00a0<strong>Benfica<\/strong>, and he won a plave in the squad, but his move proved to be short-lived, as in\u00a0<strong>December<\/strong>\u00a0he was on hte move again, this time to\u00a0<strong>Swansea<\/strong>\u00a0and then to\u00a0<strong>Nottingham Forest,\u00a0<\/strong>again on loan.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>2015-16<\/strong>\u00a0season proved to be the peak of his career up to that point. He scored nine goals and produced one assist in 29 games, performances with which he made his name in the\u00a0<strong>UK.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Norwich<\/strong>\u00a0reached an agreement with\u00a0<strong>Benfica<\/strong>\u00a0and signed him on a permanent transfer, spending around six million euros for his services.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/?post_type=player&#038;p=633930\">Oliveira<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0stayed at\u00a0<strong>Norwich<\/strong>\u00a0for three years, scoreing 20 goals in 70 appearances, while contributing five assists, stats which made him one of the most important players in his team. In the second half of the\u00a0<strong>2018-19<\/strong>\u00a0season, he was then loaned to\u00a0<strong>Reading<\/strong>, where he scored three goals in 10 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>July 2019<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>AEK<\/strong>\u00a0brought the\u00a0<strong>Portuguese<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>Greece,<\/strong>\u00a0signing him on a permanent transfer. At the\u00a0<strong>Union, Oliveira<\/strong>\u00a0was a regular starter, and he played there for two seasons. Overall, he scored 26 goals and contributed 10 assists in 70 games in all competitions for the\u00a0<strong>Athens<\/strong>\u00a0club.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/?post_type=player&#038;p=633930\"><strong>Oliveira<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is also an international with\u00a0<strong>Portugal.<\/strong>\u00a0He played in all the various youth ranks of the national team setup, producing impressive numbers, and he made his debut with the senior side in\u00a0<strong>February 2012.<\/strong>\u00a0He played at\u00a0<strong>Euro 2012<\/strong>, while so far in toal he has played 17 times, scoring two goals.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer,\u00a0<strong><a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/?post_type=player&#038;p=633930\">Oliveira<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>was released from\u00a0<strong>AEK<\/strong>\u00a0and accepted\u00a0<strong>PAOK\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0proposal to remain in\u00a0<strong>Greece. <\/strong>In his first season in a black and white shirt he was exceptionally unlucky, since he suffered a serious knee injury in only his second competitive match for the club and only managed to make nine appearances, scoring once and providing one assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our striker Nelson Oliveira turns 31 today, and PAOK FC would like to wish him many years of health, happiness and successes on both a personal and professional level.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":697578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5],"tags":[2378,2457,2534,3766,12263],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday Nelson! 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