Snake Eye

Random can best describe the process of in which Snake Eye is based. Yes it is a closer look at players and it may be similiar to Hatchlings, Dinosaurs and Fossils but the selection of the player is completely off track. For one Snake Eye differs in that you actually get a lot more me in the article instead of a ton of numbers, but how are players chosen, you ask. Through a systematic, complex and arduous process done by a highly advanced technological device................ I go on my Playstation 3 put on FIFA 09 go to one of the leagues of subsatnces (e.g) Bundesliga, La Liga or Ligue 1 and hit the random button. If only life was that straight foward and here we are with our first Snake Eye.

Name: Joao Alves de Assis Silva (Better known as Jo)

D/O/B: 03/20/1987 (age 22)

Place if Birth: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Position: Striker (Centre Foward/ Central Attacking Midfielder)

Prefered Foot: Left

Height: 6'2 ft/inches

Weight: 154lbs

National Team: Brazil

Caps: 3

Club Teams: Corinthians (2003-05), CSKA Moscow (2005-08), Manchester City FC (2008- present), Everton FC (loan 2009)

Now the facts about Jo. Joao Alves de Assis Silva was born in the favelas of Sao Paulo, Brazil on the 20th of March 1987. Having being born into poverty Jo took the route of most Brazilians looking to seek fame and fortune by taking the beautiful game and Corinthians was Jo's very first love affair. The lanky strker join on at youth level and in played from 2003 until 2005 making 54 appearances and scoring 13 goals for the "Coringao," but Europe beckoned and Jo was drafted by the "Army Men," of CSKA Moscow in 2005 where he spent three years with the Moscovites. His symbiotic partnership with countryman and fellow wild hair enthusiast Wagner Love guided the Russian outfit to numerous European outtings and a slew of domestic honours. With his performances in the Russian capital causing the rest of the continent to take notice a move from Luzhniki was on the cards and Jo soon found himself in the blue half of Manchester. A fee of just over 18 million pounds was the price paid by Manchester City to lure him to Eastlands in the summer of 08, a price tag to date has not been justified well not at Manchester that is. Nine starts and just one league goal against a hounded Portsmouth saw Jo's Eastlands career but on hold for the moment and the powers that be farmed the young striker out on loan to Everton. Goodison has been much more kinder to the Selacao hit man with five goals in twelve appearances Jo can consider himself a success in Liverpool.

There is not much to cover in terms of international game for Mojo JoJo just the three international caps to his name at senior level the first of which coming in June 2007 versus the Turks.That being said Jo is an Olympic Bronze medalist picking up the title last year at the Beijing games.

Now we can say we know Jo all that is left is to meet his mother.What I think about Jo?, I rate him very highly I will even go so far by saying he should partner Luis Fabiano for Brazil. I think he is better than is club's cross town rivals other lanky striker Dimitar Berbatov. Mark Hughes is a good coach but a bit soft in the head, in that he can find room on the pitch for CRAIG BELLAMY but not Jo. I can count on one hand how much strikers are better than Jo in the Premier league, Fernando Torres, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez, Didier Drogba and Robbie Keane, yes Keane he is awesome all other strikers fall behind, CUE DEBATE and no Cristiano Ronaldo is a winger not a striker so he does not count.

As much as I have a strong bias towards the lad some issues have to be addressed. Going back to the Mark Hughes and Bellamy scenario with Jo being left on the bench I could see why, Jo is not the most industrious, to be frank he is lazy. Another vice of his is that he is a bit of a sulker its not easy moving to another country I can relate to that but when your getting the chances he gets you might want to stand up and me counted for.