{"id":81269,"date":"2025-08-20T01:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:30:15","slug":"fabio-sets-record-for-most-appearances-in-football-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81269\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e1bio sets record for most appearances in football history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon entering the Maracan\u00e3 field this Tuesday (19th), against Am\u00e9rica de Cali, for the return leg of the South American round of 16, F\u00e1bio became the player with the most matches played in the history of world football.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old Fluminense goalkeeper reached 1,391 games, surpassing Peter Shilton (an English goalkeeper who played between 1966 and 1997) to stand alone as the &#8220;biggest game lover&#8221; of all time!<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Truly a star!<\/p>\n<p>The Fluminense goalkeepers, in fact, play with a special patch in honor of this achievement.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00e1bio joined Fluminense in 2022 and won the Carioca championship twice (2022 and 2023), the 2023 Libertadores, and the 2024 South American Recopa. The goalkeeper has a contract with the Tricolor until December 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the 235 matches for Fluminense, F\u00e1bio played 976 games for Cruzeiro, 150 for Vasco, and another 30 for Uni\u00e3o Bandeirante, the club that discovered him in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/pt-br\/noticias\/fabio-se-isola-como-jogador-com-mais-jogos-da-historia-do-futebol-mundial-41536486\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Alex Grimm &#8211; 2025 Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upon entering the Maracan\u00e3 field this Tuesday (19th), against Am\u00e9rica de Cali, for the return leg of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[61616,64,63,61615,61618,596,61619,61617,85,61620],"class_list":["post-81269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-america-de-cali","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fabio","tag-fluminense","tag-football","tag-football-history","tag-peter-shilton","tag-sports","tag-world-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}