It’s official: Thiago Silva is back at Fluminense

It’s official now. A history of European football and the Brazilian team, Thiago Silvasigned, at 39 years old, for Fluminense, where he played between 2006 and 2009, before jumping to Europe. The defender, until the end of the season in Chelseawill later join the ranks of flu.

It has come out that there was a verbal agreement between the still defending the Chelsea and the carioca club, but this Tuesday Fluminense announced the signing. Thiago Silva signed until June 2026.

On April 29, Chelsea announced the departure of Thiago Silva at the end of the season. Emotionally, the center then said that “when I arrived there was just a pandemic and there was no one in the stadium, but the fans always when they came back to the stadium, I felt that there was respect and love. to me, I will always be ‘blue’ “.

Thiago Silva made the leap to Europe from Fluminense in 2009 to sign for Milanwhere he remained until 2012, when the PSGwhose shirt he defended until 2020. Then, in the middle of the pandemic, when the Brazilian international joined the Chelsea.

With the Chelsea Thiago Silva won the Champions League in 2020-21 (beat the Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City), after losing the final of the same in 2019-20 with PSG he is new Bavaria (0-1). Before with the Parisians he won 7 Ligues 1, 5 Cups and 6 League Cups, among other titles. With Chelsea, in addition to the Champions League, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup.

Thiago Silva won the Copa América and a Confederations Cup together Brazilbut he experienced a huge blow to the ‘seleçao’, such as elimination with 1-7 against Germany in the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup, as the host Brazil, although he did not play that game due to suspension. He is the captain of the ‘canarinha’. And he experienced elimination in penalty fights Croatia in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar A year before, defeat against Leo Messi’s Argentina in the Copa América final (1-0) -.