The Brazilian Junior Doreva, the former player of the Al-Nasr first football team, brought back memories of his defense of the yellow shirt 21 years ago, when he wrote a tweet through his account on Twitter, the social networking site, on Sunday, carrying his first words: “Al-Nasr is my heart team.”
The Brazilian, who crossed the 51-year-old barrier, was pushed once more by his longing to express his emotional attachment so far to victory, to appear from the same podium on which he had previously reviewed his most valuable possessions during his experience, where he wrote: “Victory is my heart’s team .. I hope it will be a year of accomplishments.” The great,” referring to his follow-up and great interest in the team, which is currently intensifying its moves to strengthen its ranks in preparation for the start of the new sports season.
This tweet was not the first of its kind for those who represented the Brazilian Palmeiras team before moving to Al-Nasr 2001, as Al-Asimi club fans periodically share excerpts from his career during his yellow representation, including his famous goal once morest Al-Hilal during the first leg of the semi-finals of the Golden Square of the Khadem Cup The Two Holy Mosques, which he described at the time as “the most important goals”, which is the goal that gave Al-Nasr the pass to the final following the end of the home and away matches (1-0).
Junior played in that period with the club whose board of directors is headed by the late Prince Abdul Rahman bin Saud, and he was with a number of prominent players in the ranks of the Nasrawi team, including goalkeeper Muhammad Al-Khojali, Ali Yazid, his compatriot Rinaldo, and the Tunisian Mahdi bin Salman, and they were led by Portuguese coach Arthur George In that season, the Brazilian player scored 7 goals, including two once morest Al-Ahly in the final of the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup, which his team lost on penalties.
In that season, Junior played one of his highest competitive seasons ever, as he said in statements following that era. With Al-Nasr at the time, he reached 4 final matches “Prince Faisal bin Fahd Cup and lost once morest Al-Ahly on penalties, in addition to the league and lost it at the hands of Al-Ittihad (1- 0), in addition to the Arab Championship and lost the opportunity to embrace its title once morest Al Hilal with a loss (2-1), leading to the Arab Elite Championship when it tied in the famous final match with the Syrian Army (2-2), and then Al Hilal was crowned with the title.
Junior spoke regarding this in media statements in the wake of the exciting season, saying: “We gave everything in the 2001 season, we were better on the field than all the opponents, but luck was not on our side, return to the elite championship and see how we lost it, football did not do us justice that year. ».
After the victory experience, the management of the latter preferred to be satisfied with one season with the Brazilian, following which he played with Al-Ittihad, but he did not stay long in Jeddah on a short trip that did not bear fruit, to return to his country, and settle in Recife, his hometown, accompanied by his family with his daughter and son Mansour, who followed in the footsteps of his father .
The brilliant player in the midfield when he was young, he also planned brilliantly when he chose to settle in Recife, which is one of the most important tourist destinations in northern Brazil, and is characterized by the multiplicity of islands that attract tourists, and certainly like most regions of the first coffee country, it breathes football, represented by the Recife Club team, and it was Among the cities that had the honor of hosting the World Cup matches twice, the first in 1950 and the second in 2014.
