Alfredo Razon Gonzalez

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Alfredo Razon Gonzalez
Personal information
Full name Alfredo Fernando Razón Gonzalez
Date of birth (1978-10-01) 1 October 1978 (age 45)[1]
Place of birth Mandaluyong, Philippines
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Loyola Meralco Sparks
Number 9
Youth career
1998–1999 Portland Pilots
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Kaya ? (?)
2003 Ngân hàng Đông Á ? (?)
2012 Pachanga Diliman 21 (34)
2013– Loyola Meralco Sparks 4 (3)
International career
1997–2002 Philippines ? (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Alfredo Fernando Razón "Freddy" Gonzalez (born 1 October 1978 in Parañaque[1]) is a Filipino football player currently playing as a striker for Loyola Meralco Sparks. He is a many-time member of the Philippines national football team, and he is also considered as the first ever Filipino professional football player in history and the Philippines' finest striker since the legendary Paulino Alcántara. Like Alcántara, Gonzalez is a Filipino of Spanish descent.

Early years

Gonzalez's mother, Terry Razón, enrolled him to Tomas Lozano's Makati Football School (MFS) at age six. He later became the high school football star of Colegio de San Agustin. Gonzalez earned himself a soccer scholarship to the University of Portland, then considered one of the most professionally run(football wise) and well coached university teams in the US.[2] He stayed there for 2 years(1998/99) and honed his offensive skills playing for the Portland Pilots, the school soccer team.

Pro career

Learning the game from Spanish import Tomas Lozano, Gonzalez tried out with French club Calais RUFC coached by Ladislas Lozano, Tomas' brother, in 2000. Gonzalez trained in France for two weeks but was sidelined due to a torn hamstring. By the time he was recovered from injury, Lozano had already accepted a coaching job in Morocco.

Due to impressing team manager Nguyen Tien Huy of the V-League club Ngân hàng Đông Á (East Asian Commercial Bank FC) for his play for the Philippines in the 2002 Tiger Cup in Jakarta, Gonzalez signed a one-year contract with the club in January 2003.[3]

He also played for Komodo AS of Indonesia in 2004, being the only active Filipino professional player at that time.[4] He was a part-time player in Europe and also played for Kaya in the Philippines. Unfortunately, right after his contract with the Vietnam professional club expired Gonzalez retired from playing football, concentrating more into his interest in surfing and other business ventures such as bringing in the Brazilian flip flops brand Havaianas into the Philippines.

The comeback to Philippine Football scene

However, he put up the team Pachanga FC for the United Football League Division 2 in 2011.

In January 2012, for the first time in almost half a decade of retirement, he played for Pachanga. He scored in his debut in the 4-0 win against Agila in the opening match.[5]

In the mid of June 2012, he led the team to the championship in Division 2 having 123 goals in the league.[6] He won the Division 2's Golden Ball and Golden Boot Awards together with teammate Kenneth Dolloso, which won the Best Goalkeeper Award.[7]

Loyola

On January 7, 2013, Gonzales transferred to Loyola before the start of 2013 PFF–Smart National Championship knockout stage and UFL 4th season.[8]

International career

Gonzalez made his debut for the Philippine national team in the 1997 South East Asian Games.[9] He then played in the then "ASEAN Tiger Cup," (now Suzuki Cup), in Vietnam in 1998.[4] He has, since then, represented the country in South East Asian Games (particularly the 1999 SEA Games in Brunei), in the Tiger Cup,[10] and in any other invitational and qualifying tournaments.

International goals

Scores and results list the Philippines' goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 29 August 1998 Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City  Thailand
1–1
1–3
 1998 Tiger Cup
2. 31 August 1998 Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City  Myanmar
1–1
2–5
 1998 Tiger Cup
3. 31 August 1998 Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City  Myanmar
2–1
2–5
 1998 Tiger Cup
4. 17 December 2002 Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta  Myanmar
1–6
1–6
 2002 Tiger Cup

Personal life

Gonzalez graduated with an Engineering degree. He is married to Regina Anne Marie Arcenas-Gonzalez, Managing Director of Terry S.A., Inc. (Official distributor of Havaianas, David & Goliath, Pininho, and Dupe in the Philippines). With his varied interests, he opened "Aloha Board Sports," a shop that catered to skaters and surfers. He also owned a skate shop at the Global City in Taguig called 5-O.[9]

Honours

Club

Pachanga
Loyola

Individual

References

General
Specific
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ http://usapangfootball.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=legends&action=print&thread=854
  3. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:V3vql_VC_7QJ:www.philstar.com/thedeanscorner/articlescontent.aspx?articleid%3D207713+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=245030
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  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://wikingandtheazkals.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-and-what-for-as-ive-often-stated-im.html
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External links

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