{"id":785487,"date":"2024-02-04T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T09:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20240204-xronia-polla-brandon\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T10:31:06","slug":"20240204-xronia-polla-brandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20240204-xronia-polla-brandon\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Brandon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon was born on February 4, 1995 in\u00a0<strong>Santanyi<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mallorca<\/strong>, to a\u00a0<strong>Spanish<\/strong>\u00a0mother and an\u00a0<strong>English<\/strong>\u00a0father. His football skills earned him a place in the\u00a0<strong>Mallorca<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Academies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>December<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>2012<\/strong>, without having even yet having played in the second team, he got a baptism of fire in professional football in a game against\u00a0<strong>Sevilla<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>Copa Del Rey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later he made his league debut, and on January 9 he scored his first goal in a game against\u00a0<strong>Sevilla<\/strong>. He established himself in the senior men\u2019s team in 2015-16 when Mallorca were competing in\u00a0<strong>La Liga 2<\/strong>, with the forward making 29 appearances, scoring six goals and contributing three assists.<\/p>\n<p>In the following season, again in the second division, he improved his numbers even further with 13 goals and four assists in 40 games, with his team, however, being relegated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rennes<\/strong>\u00a0were convinced of his talent and invested in him by making him a resident of\u00a0<strong>Brittany<\/strong>\u00a0in July 2017. In\u00a0<strong>France<\/strong>\u00a0in 12 games, he scored one goal and provided one assist. In the 2018\u201319 season he was loaned to\u00a0<strong>Osasuna<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<strong>Segunda<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Division<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in a familiar environment,\u00a0<a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/profiles\/brandon-thomas-llamas-en\/\">Brandon<\/a>\u00a0again found his good form and contributed the most for the\u00a0<strong>Pamplona<\/strong>\u00a0team to win the championship and promotion. He then joined\u00a0<strong>Osasuna<\/strong>\u00a0on a permanent transfer, but he only remained there for another six months as in January 2020 he was loaned out to\u00a0<strong>Girona<\/strong>, where he was unlucky.<\/p>\n<p>A serious knee injury kept him out of action for almost a year and when he returned he was loaned to\u00a0<strong>Leganes<\/strong>\u00a0and then ended up in\u00a0<strong>Malaga<\/strong>\u00a0as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<strong>2021-22<\/strong>\u00a0season he rediscovered his form, and had a full season with 41 matches, scoring nine times, and providing two assists to help his team to avoid relegation.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of\u00a0<strong>2022<\/strong>, he was looking for a new challenge in his career and after being released by\u00a0<strong>Malaga<\/strong>, he accepted PAOK\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0<strong>PAOK<\/strong> so far he has made <strong>72<\/strong> appearances and has found the net <strong>21<\/strong> times, also contributing <strong>5<\/strong> assists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Birthday Brandon!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our forward Brandon Thomas turns 29 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":32,"featured_media":785482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1520,5],"tags":[2457,2534,3766,15624],"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 Brandon! 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