Alfredo Razon Gonzalez
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alfredo Fernando Razón Gonzalez | ||
| Date of birth | 1 October 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Mandaluyong, Philippines | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Loyola Meralco Sparks | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1998–1999 | Portland Pilots | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2003 | Kaya | 45 | (16) |
| 2003 | Ngân hàng Đông Á | 15 | (2) |
| 2004–2012 | Pachanga Diliman | 127 | (51) |
| 2013–2015 | Loyola Meralco Sparks | 42 | (5) |
| National team | |||
| 1997–2002 | Philippines | 23 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC). |
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Alfredo Fernando Razón "Freddy" Gonzalez (born 1 October 1978 in Parañaque) is a Filipino football player. 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.
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. He stayed there for 2 years(1998/99) and honed his offensive skills playing for the Portland Pilots, the school soccer team.
Learning the game from Spanish expatriate, 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.
He also played for Komodo AS of Indonesia in 2004, being the only active Filipino professional player at that time. 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.
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