In detail the relevant announcement:
“Athens Kallithea FC announces the acquisition of the Portuguese striker Marco Paixao with free transcript after completing its collaboration with the Turkish Band; Rmaspor.
Paixao, 40, became a top scorer in Turkey’s second division in four of the last seven seasons, with 126 goals and 21 assists in 201 championship matches at the same time, including 19 goals with five assists last season. In the past, he scored 61 goals and scored 10 assists in 123 championship matches in Ekstraklasa, Poland, with Slask Wroclaw and Lechia Gdansk, and performs from the first categories in Scotland, Cyprus and Czech Republic.
Born in Sesimbra, Paixao was nominated by the local GD Sesimbra academy and began his career with Porto B, then competing with Spain’s Guijuelo, Logrones and Leonesa before going to Scotland.
Paixao signed to Hamilton Academical in August 2009, scoring five goals and distributing three assists in his maiden season at Premiership Scotland.
After a short pass from Iran, Paixao went to Cyprus on behalf of National Achna, with 15 goals in 31 league matches – including 8 goals in 6 playout matches – helping the team stay in the first division in the 2012/13 season.
Paixao joined Slask Wroclaw next year and had an explosive season in 2013/14 with 21 goals at Ekstraklasa, with five more goals in the UEFA Europa League. He stayed at Slask for two seasons, scoring a total of 36 goals with six assists.
His excellent Paixao form secured him a transfer to Sparta Prague, with which he made his UEFA Champions League debut in July 2015. Six months later, he returned to Poland on behalf of Lechia Gdansk, with whom he became the first scorer of Ekstraklas in the 2016/17. During two and a half season with GDansk, Paixao scored a total of 34 goals and six assists in 68 matches in all competitions.
In June 2018, Paixao went to Turkey on behalf of Altay and began finding nets with impressive consistency, highlighting Turkey’s second scorer for three consecutive seasons, with 29 goals in 2018/19, 22 goals in 2019/20 and 22 goals in 2020/21. After a season in the top category, Altay returned to the second, where Paixao was again the top scorer in the 2022/23 season (21 goals).
Paixao finally left Altay in the winter of next season to continue to Sanl? Urfaspor, completing the 2023/24 season with a total of 15 goals in both teams.
Paixao joined Band? Rmaspor last summer and contributed to the team until the final of the playoffs, completing the season with 19 goals and five assists in the league.
Welcome, Marco. “
Source: Sport Fm
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