Martin Keown: “Thiago Silva shames many by still playing at 41” | OneFootball

Martin Keown, former England international, lavished praise on Thiago Silva, FC Porto’s centre-back, who played the full 90 minutes on Thursday in the 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest at the Estádio do Dragão, in the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals.

“Thiago Silva is older, much older… He’s 41. He’s older than the manager. I mean, he… To be honest, Thiago Silva… I retired at 39. He puts everyone to shame by still playing at 41. He came from Brazil, now he wants to play in a fifth World Cup and has a real chance of doing it. He can still play,” he began, in comments to TNT Sports.

“He’s a freak of nature to still be playing at this age. And behind the scenes, I’ve already seen some of their games where he didn’t play, but he was still involved, and the manager allowed that. I like that, when a young manager embraces an old... well, a current veteran of football,” concluded the former defender.

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