Gerson Guimarães

Gerson Guimarães Ferreira Junior ( born January 7, 1992 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian football player with a Spanish passport. The usable either as a defensive midfielder or central defender Gerson plays since January 2014 the Romanian first division Petrolul Ploieşti.

Sports career

Gerson began his career in the youth team of Botafogo FR, from where he moved to Europe in 2011. First, the midfielder was active in the youth department of the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven before moving the start of the 2011/12 season to Spain in the second team of Atlético Madrid.

At the beginning of 2012 moved the Brazilians to Austria for Kapfenberg SV, which had unsuccessfully fought the Obersteirerern against relegation. His debut in the highest Austrian league he was 25 February 2012 by played against FK Austria Wien than he. The game was won 1-0 in Vienna.

In mid-June 2012, announced by the SK Rapid Wien, that Gerson Switch on loan for at least one year at the Vienna club. After a little less than a year in Vienna SK Rapid announced not perceive the option in the loan agreement and no longer use the Brazilians in the rest of the season to want.