Taison Freda, also known as simply Taison, was born on 13 January 1988 in Brazil. He features as an attacking midfielder and a striker at Shakhtar Donetsk.
The beginning of Taison’s football career is related to Internacional. It was the sport school of the Brazilian club that Taison was attending after the young talent was noticed by the club’s scouts (Taison attended Gremio Esportivo Brasil football school in Pelotas before). In 2006 the Brazilian footballer featured for Inter youth team. In 2008 Taison became a first squad player.
2009 became really successful for the footballer; he was acknowledged as the best goal-scorer of Campeonato Gaúcho (he registered 15 goals) and then as the best goal-scorer at the Brazil Cup (with 7 goals). Moreover Freda helped the team to progress to the final.
In the August of the following year Taison transferred to Metalist. In September he played an excellent game against Shakhtar where he distinguished himself by scoring a goal that was voted the best in the round.
After a match of Europa League where Roman Abramovich was present the information that Chelsea was interested in acquiring Taison leaked out. However this news appeared to be a canard.
At the beginning of 2012 Taison netted one of the earliest goals in the history of Eurocups in a match against Austrian Red Bull in the round of 16 of UEFA Europa League. He distinguished himself by scoring the goal in the 19th second.
In January 2013 Shakhtar Donetsk secured his services for huge amount of Euro 15m.
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