{"id":87190,"date":"2023-07-27T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/27\/man-city-and-spain-legend-david-silva-retires-from-football\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:22:59","slug":"man-city-and-spain-legend-david-silva-retires-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/27\/man-city-and-spain-legend-david-silva-retires-from-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City and Spain legend David Silva retires from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2626146-54345610-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"2626146-54345610-2560-1440\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Silva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Manchester City star David Silva has confirmed his retirement from football after\u00a0suffering a devastating knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish international, 37, spent a decade with City after joining from Valencia in 2010. He played more than 400 times for the club, winning four\u00a0Premier League\u00a0titles.<\/p>\n<p>Silva joined Real Sociedad upon leaving\u00a0Manchester City\u00a0in 2020 and was about to embark on a fourth season with the Spanish club. However, after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury in a pre-season training session, he has opted to call time on his career.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The playmaker also turned out for Eibar and Celta Vigo in a 20-year playing career. He won 125 caps for Spain\u2019s senior side, winning the World Cup in 2010 and the European Championships in 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a sad day for me,\u201d Silva said. \u201cToday it is time to say goodbye to what I have dedicated my whole life to. Today it is time to say goodbye to my colleagues, who are like family to me. I will miss you very much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChes (Valencia), Armeros (Eibar), Celtinas (Celta Vigo), Citizens (Man City) and Txuri Urdines (Real Sociedad)\u2026thank you because you have made me feel at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>A number of former team-mates have shared messages of support for Silva. Among them was former Manchester City colleague Aymeric Laporte, who shared the simple message \u201cLeyenda, gracias por todos\u201d (\u2018Legend, thanks for everything)\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMago\u201d (magician) wrote Riyad Mahrez, who was part of the Manchester City squad for Silva\u2019s final league title in 2018-19, referring to one of Silva\u2019s nicknames. \u201cThank you mago\u201d was the reply from Edin Dzeko, who played alongside Silva for the pair\u2019s first English title win in 2011-12.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"MdU2wfWXk14\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MdU2wfWXk14?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Silva Former Manchester City star David Silva has confirmed his retirement from football after\u00a0suffering a devastating knee injury. The Spanish international, 37, spent a decade with City after joining from Valencia in 2010. He played more than 400 times for the club, winning four\u00a0Premier League\u00a0titles. Silva joined Real Sociedad upon leaving\u00a0Manchester City\u00a0in 2020 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man City and Spain legend David Silva retires from football - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/27\/man-city-and-spain-legend-david-silva-retires-from-football\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man City and Spain legend David Silva retires from football - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Silva Former Manchester City star David Silva has confirmed his retirement from football after\u00a0suffering a devastating knee injury. 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