{"id":69963,"date":"2025-07-08T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69963"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:52:49","slug":"fifa-cwc-eliminating-chelsea-would-be-special-thiago-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/fifa-cwc-eliminating-chelsea-would-be-special-thiago-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA CWC: Eliminating Chelsea Would Be Special -Thiago Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fluminense defender Thiago Silva says it would be \u201cspecial\u201d to knock former club Chelsea out of the FIFA Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian side faces Chelsea in the semi-final today (Tuesday), with Silva set to play against the club where he won the UEFA Champions League and Club World Cup in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be special if we manage to eliminate Chelsea, even with all the affection I have for them,\u201d Silva said. \u201cBut on the pitch, we fight for our team. After the tournament, I\u2019ll go back to supporting Chelsea and PSG as always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fluminense are unbeaten in their last five matches, while Chelsea reached the semis after a group-stage loss to Flamengo and a 2-1 win over Palmeiras in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Fluminense defender Thiago Silva says it would be \u201cspecial\u201d to knock former club Chelsea out of the FIFA Club World Cup. The Brazilian side faces Chelsea in the semi-final today (Tuesday), with Silva set to play against the club where he won the UEFA Champions League and Club World Cup in 2021. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69967,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69963\/revisions\/69967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}