{"id":10769,"date":"2021-08-25T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=142015"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:54:52","slug":"official-brazilian-forward-matheus-cunha-joins-atletico-madrid-for-e30m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/official-brazilian-forward-matheus-cunha-joins-atletico-madrid-for-e30m\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Brazilian forward Matheus Cunha joins Atletico Madrid for \u20ac30m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Atletico Madrid has officially announced the signing of the Brazilian forward or winger, Matheus Cunha on a permanent \u20ac30 million deal. The 22-year old Brazilian has won the Olympics gold medal in this 2020 Tokyo Olympics football tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Cunha also played in the playing 11 for the Brazil National Football Team in this Tokyo Olympics final game against Spain. He opened the scoring for Brazil just before the half-time whistle. Later on, another Brazilian forward Malcolm scored the winner in the extra time and helped Brazil retain their gold medal in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Matheus Cunha passes his medical at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClinicaNavarra?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ClinicaNavarra<\/a> \ud83d\udc4d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SltHzsss2R\">pic.twitter.com\/SltHzsss2R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (@atletienglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atletienglish\/status\/1430493496767651844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Matheus Cunha joined RB Leipzig in June 2018 where he played only two years. After Leipzig, he joined Hertha Berlin on a four and half year deal in the year 2020. The Brazilian forward scored 7 goals in 27 appearances for Hertha Berlin in Bundesliga in the 2020-2021 season. Cunha already played three full seasons in the Bundesliga, one for RB Leipzig and two for Hertha Berlin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official and confirmed. Matheus Cunha joins Atletico Madrid from Hertha Berlin on a permanent move, contract until June 2026. \ud83d\udd34\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Atleti?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Atleti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Final fee will be \u20ac26m plus 10% future sale. Atl\u00e9ti were also considering a move for Moise Kean \u2013 but the priority was Matheus Cunha.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1430486573905289216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid had an eye on the Brazilian forward this whole summer. Atletico wanted their options to grow in the forward position along with their other forward players like Luiz Suarez and Yannick Carrasco. Thus, they signed the Young former Bundesliga forward. However, there was some competition for the Spanish side from the English club, Everton, to get the signature of the 22-year-old Brazilian as reported by Fabrizio Romano, but they finally managed to sign him (Matheus Cunha) on a permanent deal for \u20ac30 million. Cunha has signed a 5-year contract at the club, which means he will stay in the Spanish club until June 2026.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome, Matheus Cunha! \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7fnD2o1kSb\">pic.twitter.com\/7fnD2o1kSb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (@atletienglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atletienglish\/status\/1430485400158605312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid has officially signed the new forward from the Bundesliga side, Hertha Berlin named Matheus Cunha for \u20ac30 million. Deal with the Brazilian forward was announced by the Spanish club on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":33246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[410,344,1080,2414,2442,411],"class_list":["post-10769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-bundesliga","tag-gold-medalist","tag-hertha-berlin","tag-matheus-cunha","tag-rb-leipzig"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}