{"id":469329,"date":"2023-11-13T17:12:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469329"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:12:32","slug":"thiago-silva-is-chelseas-oldest-goalscorer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/thiago-silva-is-chelseas-oldest-goalscorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiago Silva is Chelsea\u2019s oldest goalscorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiago Silva now holds the record for the oldest goalscorer in the Blues history as he scored in his team\u2019s 4-4 draw against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thiago Silva is now Chelsea&#8217;s oldest goalscorer (39 years and 51 days old) \ud83c\udf77\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xMI2e7sAwf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/xMI2e7sAwf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNUK\/status\/1724041925374705900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thiago inked with the North London club in 2020, shortly before turning 36, and has played more than 120 matches for Chelsea since then in just over 3 years with the Premier League side.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian broke a 76-year-old record, dating back to 1947 when ex-England international Dick Spence netted aged 38.<\/p>\n<p>Thiago is now 4<sup>th<\/sup> on the Premier League\u2019s all-time list of oldest goalscorers, too, with only Teddy Sheringham, Dean Windass, and Ryan Giggs scoring when they were older than him.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy Sheringham&#8217;s goal in the Premier League came when the striker was almost 41 years old, as the time will tell if Silva will go for that record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiago Silva now holds the record for the oldest goalscorer in the Blues history as he scored in his team\u2019s 4-4 draw against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469330,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,17317,18916],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,17886,21131],"acf":{"announce":"The Brazilian defender netted aged 39 years and 51 days.","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\/469329"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469331,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469329\/revisions\/469331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469329"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469329"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}