1. He was born in Bom Sucesso<\/p>\n
Igor Julio was born in the superbly named Bom Sucesso, which translates as \u2018Good Success\u2019 in English, in the state of Minas Gerais in south-eastern Brazil.<\/p>\n
He played for Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro and Portuguesa Santista as a schoolboy before joining S\u00e3o Paulo-based Red Bull Brasil at the age of 18 in 2016.<\/p>\n
Igor moved to Europe the same year, when he joined Austrian Bundesliga side FC Red Bull Salzburg and was sent to the club\u2019s second-tier farm team FC Liefering.<\/p>\n
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2. He is a UEFA Youth League winner<\/p>\n
Igor spent three seasons in Austria between the ages of 18 and 21, appearing for four different clubs.<\/p>\n
The then 18-year-old first established himself at senior level with Red Bull Salzburg\u2019s farm club FC Liefering in 2016\/17 – a season that also saw him play alongside a number of his Liefering teammates for Salzburg\u2019s U19s in the UEFA Youth League.<\/p>\n
Igor started as Salzburg defeated Vardar of Macedonia, Kairat of Kazakhstan, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid – against whom he scored in a 2-1 win – Barcelona and Benfica to win the prestigious trophy for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. He was born in Bom Sucesso Igor Julio was born in the superbly named Bom Sucesso, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-108613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}