announced<\/a> the move on Porto’s X account on Saturday, just days after his contract\u00a0at Brazilian club Fluminense\u00a0was terminated six months early.<\/p>\n\u201cI’m super motivated,\u201d he said in a video with subtitles. \u201cI hope I can help in the best way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Porto said\u00a0in a statement\u00a0that he has joined until the end of the season, with an option for another season, and that there was no transfer fee involved.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old Thiago Silva helped Fluminense reach the semifinals of the Club World Cup in July.<\/p>\n
He has 113 caps for Brazil and was in the squad at the last four World Cups. He is reportedly hoping for a recall in time for next summer’s tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTO, Portugal \u2014 Veteran Brazilian defender Thiago Silva has joined Portuguese league leader Porto until the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-357977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}