Alfredo Fernando Razón "Freddy" González (born January 10, 1978, in

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) is a Filipino former

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player. He was the senior national teams director of the

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and team manager of the Philippines national team from 2024 to 2025.

Early years

Gonzalez's mother, Terry Razón, enrolled him to Tomas Lozano's Makati Football School (MFS) at age six. He later became the high school football star of Colegio de San Agustin. Gonzalez earned himself a soccer scholarship to the

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, then considered one of the most professionally run (football wise) and well coached university teams in the United States. He stayed there for two years (1998/99) and honed his offensive skills playing for the Portland Pilots, the school soccer team.

Club career

Learning the game from Spanish expatriate, Tomas Lozano, Gonzalez tried out with French club

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coached by

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, Tomas' brother, in 2000. Gonzalez trained in France for two weeks but was sidelined due to a torn hamstring. By the time he was recovered from injury, Lozano had already accepted a coaching job in Morocco. Due to impressing team manager Nguyen Tien Huy of the V-League club Ngân hàng Đông Á (East Asian Commercial Bank FC) for his play for the Philippines in the 2002 Tiger Cup in Jakarta, Gonzalez signed a one-year contract with the club in January 2003. He also played for Komodo AS of

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in 2004, being the only active Filipino professional player at that time. He was a part-time player in

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and also played for

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in the Philippines. Unfortunately, right after his contract with the Vietnam professional club expired Gonzalez retired from playing football, concentrating more into his interest in surfing and other business ventures such as bringing in the Brazilian flip flops brand

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into the Philippines.

Return to football

However, he put up the team

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for the United Football League Division 2 in 2011. In January 2012, for the first time in almost half a decade of retirement, he played for Pachanga. He scored in his debut in the 4-0 win against Agila in the opening match. In the mid of June 2012, he led the team to the championship in Division 2 having 123 goals in the league. He won the Division 2's Golden Ball and Golden Boot Awards together with teammate Kenneth Dolloso, which won the Best Goalkeeper Award.

Loyola

On January 7, 2013, Gonzales transferred to Loyola before the start of 2013 PFF–Smart National Championship knockout stage and UFL 4th season.

International career

Gonzalez made his debut for the Philippine national team in the 1997

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. He then played in the then " ASEAN Tiger Cup," (now Suzuki Cup), in Vietnam in 1998. He has, since then, represented the country in

(particularly the 1999 SEA Games in Brunei), in the Tiger Cup, and in any other invitational and qualifying tournaments.

International goals

:''Scores and results list the Philippines' goal tally first.''

Sports executive career

Football

;Philippines national teams

On January 11, 2024, it was announced that Gonzalez was appointed as the new national teams director of the

and team manager of the Philippines national teams, succeeding long-time national team manager

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. His tenure saw the national team return to the semifinals in the

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. He resigned in June 2025.

Personal life

Gonzalez graduated with an Engineering degree. He is married to Regina Anne Marie Arcenas-Gonzalez, Managing Director of Terry S.A., Inc. (Official distributor of

, David & Goliath, Pininho, and Dupe in the

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). With his varied interests, he opened "Aloha Board Sports," a shop that catered to skaters and surfers. He also owned a skate shop at the Global City in

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called 5-O.

Honors

Club

;Pachanga *

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;Loyola *

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: 2014–15

Individual

* UFL Division 2 Golden Ball:

* UFL Division 2 Golden Boot:

Notes

References

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External links

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