{"id":467288,"date":"2023-10-26T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467288"},"modified":"2023-10-26T05:59:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:59:31","slug":"porto-veteran-pepe-sets-champions-league-record","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/porto-veteran-pepe-sets-champions-league-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Porto veteran Pepe sets Champions League record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Porto won 4-1 away to Antwerp in a Champions League group stage match, with defender Pepe setting a new record in Europe&#8217;s most elite football competition.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran started the match in Belgium at the age of 40 years and 241 days, making him the oldest player in Champions League history, excluding goalkeepers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Aged 40 years and 241 days, Porto\u2019s Pepe has become the oldest-ever outfield player to feature in the Champions League \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9<\/p>\n<p>He made his debut in the competition back in September 2004 &#8211; a whole 19 years ago \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>The longevity of the Portuguese defender is insane \ud83c\udf77\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q2hdQ2ZJsF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Q2hdQ2ZJsF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SPORTbible (@sportbible) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportbible\/status\/1717273503349559541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pepe broke the record of Roberto Donadoni and David Weir, as both players\u00a0 played in the Champions League at 40 years and 211 days in 2006 and 2011 respectively. With the win, Porto jumped to second place in group H, having six points &#8211; three less than the leader Barcelona and leaving Shakhtar and Antwerp behind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Porto won 4-1 away to Antwerp in a Champions League group stage match, with defender Pepe setting a new record in Europe&#8217;s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":467293,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17711],"news_category":[142,14235],"gn_keywords":[375],"acf":{"announce":"He became the oldest outfield starter in the tournament","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467302,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467288\/revisions\/467302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467288"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467288"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}