Position: Defender
Team number: 33
Date of Birth: 22/09/1984
Citizenship: Brazil
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 79 kg
Thiago Emiliano da Silva(Port.-Br. Thiago Emiliano da Silva; September 22, 1984, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Brazilian footballer, central defender. Captain of the French club Paris Saint-Germain and the Brazilian national team.
Biography
Thiago Silva's first adult team was Juventude; he soon attracted the attention of European clubs and went first to Porto, then in 2005 to Dynamo Moscow, which was then actively purchasing Portuguese and Brazilian legionnaires. Thiago was only on loan, which expired in 2007, while the player’s contract with Dynamo was valid until the end of 2008. A complaint filed with FIFA in 2007 remained unanswered; the Moscow club demands payment of 15 million euros. In Russia, Silva became seriously ill, and therefore did not play a single meeting for the club:
In 2005, Dynamo Moscow hired me, but it was terribly cold in Moscow and I got sick. I was in the hospital for six months. I always felt hungry. My mother said I didn't look sick, but I couldn't move. The doctors advised me to go for a walk, but I could not get out of bed. I was isolated from everyone, because this disease is very contagious. From time to time the doctor gave me injections, plus I ate 10-15 tablets a day. I eventually found out that I had tuberculosis for six months. The doctors said two more weeks and I would have died. I often remember that time. Then I thought about leaving football.
The then Dynamo doctor Yuri Vasilkov explained:
He began treating tuberculosis patient Thiago Silva. Now they write that I saved him - and I was just doing my job, people treating tuberculosis helped me. It was not I who saved, but Russian medicine. All these Portuguese-speaking guys were brought to the gathering, to see, to ride. And Tiago has a fever and is constantly coughing - I struggled for two days, nothing worked. I approach Oleg Ivanovich: “There’s something serious with Thiago.” But I was very afraid that AIDS might get into the team. I took Tiago to Lisbon and in the photographs I saw tracks in the right lung, Koch bacilli - hematogenously disseminated tuberculosis. The lung is completely affected and has an open form. The duration of the disease is 8-10 months. That is, he fell ill long before Dynamo. I had to urgently send him to Russia. I managed to check the team on a fluorogram - thank God, there was no contact with anyone. Tuberculosis did not affect the team. I was the only one who didn’t take a photo because I was with a sick person. But I felt that doctors were not interested. I’m glad that Thiago is now playing powerfully for Brazil and PSG. Although he has probably already forgotten us.
In 2006, the defender returned to his homeland, where he played for Fluminense. He became one of the leaders of the team that managed to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores in 2008. Thanks to his play, he was recruited to the Brazilian national team, with which he won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.
In December 2008, Thiago joined Milan for €10 million. He made his debut in the 2008/09 season in a friendly game against Hannover 96. The official debut took place in the match with Siena at the start of the 2009/10 season. Overall, he spent the season at a high level, making virtually no mistakes and rarely getting injured. In the summer of 2010, Real Madrid made an offer of €20 million and Rafael van der Vaart into the bargain, but Milan rejected the offers, unwilling to let go of their leading defender. In November 2010, Silva explained why he did not move to Real Madrid: his wife Isabel did not want him to move.
On May 18, 2011, the player extended his contract with Milan until June 30, 2016. On November 27, in a home game against Chievo, he entered the field for the first time with the captain's armband and scored the first goal in the match, which ended with a score of 4:0 in favor of Milan. That same year, Thiago won the Golden Samba prize, awarded to the best Brazilian player playing in Europe, beating out Dani Alves and Hulk in the voting.
On July 14, 2012, the player signed a contract with the French club Paris Saint-Germain for a period of 5 years.
Achievements
Team
- Brazilian Cup winner: 2007
- Copa Libertadores finalist: 2008
- Italian Champion: 2010/11
- Italian Super Cup winner: 2011
- French Champion: 2013
- Bronze medalist at the 2008 Olympic Games
Personal
- Best defender of the Italian Championship 2010/11
- Winner of the Golden Samba Award: 2011 2012
Thiago Silva is an athlete who is well known to all football fans. He is known for his performances for the French club Paris Saint-Germain and the Brazilian national team. This is a talented and productive defender, and therefore his career and biography should be described in more detail.
Childhood
Thiago Silva, who is the highest paid player in Ligue 1, was born into a very poor family. His mother already had two children and was convinced that she could not raise another. However, the boy was born.
His family lived in the real slums of Rio de Janeiro. Little Thiago grew up in poverty and was often sick. In addition, my parents divorced.
Having become a little more mature and smarter, Thiago did not get involved with teenage gangs, of which there were a lot in his area. He decided to follow a dream that seemed impossible - to become a football player. His stepfather supported him in this - a kind, God-fearing man.
There was little money, but Thiago Silva, whose photo is presented above, did not miss the chance to train. It’s hard to imagine, but he couldn’t even get into a seedy local team. However, the boy did not give up. At the age of 14, he managed to get into Fluminense FC. There, by the way, he met Marcelo, who became his best friend.
Carier start
Thiago Silva played for two years at Fluminense FC. Then he moved to the Brazilian Barcelona, and a year later he tried himself at RG Football. There he stayed, in 2003 he played 25 matches for the main team and scored 2 goals.
And in 2004, the Brazilian signed a contract with FC Juventude, which played in Serie A. There he immediately became a first-team player. Of course, the talented football player Thiago Silva was immediately noticed by representatives of other, more famous clubs.
Offers came. And Thiago, without waiting for the end of his debut season, moved to Porto. They paid 2,500,000 euros for it. True, in Portugal the young central defender was unable to break into the main team, and therefore played for the reserve team in the 3rd division.
In 2005, in January, he was noticed by Dynamo Moscow. WITH Russian club Thiago signed a contract for 3 years, but a month later he began to have serious health problems.
Treatment in Moscow
Footballer Thiago Silva could not stand the Russian climate. During the cold Moscow winter, he fell ill and was hospitalized for 6 months with tuberculosis.
He always felt hungry, he couldn’t move, it was hard for him to even get out of bed. Thiago was given several injections a day and given 10-15 tablets. Doctors told him that if he had not sought help for another 2 weeks, he would have died. His entire lung was affected.
Silva later said that at that terrible time he even thought about leaving football. Of course, he did not play a single match for Dynamo, he was only at the training camp. And in 2006 he returned to Brazil to play for Fluminense. There, in three years, he became the leader of the club, even leading the team to the final of the Libertadores Cup. And as a member of the Olympic team he won bronze at the 2008 Olympics.
Moving to Italy
In 2008, Milan made an offer to the Brazilian defender. Thiago moved to the Italian club for 10 million euros. Soon after this, Dynamo management announced that they wanted to sue him for $15,000,000. because he voluntarily terminated the contract. Allegedly, this amount was stated in his contract as “compensation”.
But the management received a denial of the claim from FIFA. Thiago Silva terminated his contract back in 2005, in the summer, so this act is pure arbitrariness.
The defender's debut in Milan took place in 2009, on January 21. It was a friendly match. The next one took place on August 22. Why? Because Silva was not registered at Milan due to his lack of an EU passport. But he trained with other players. And who was finishing his career at that time, he dubbed Thiago his “heir” in defense.
Further career
In 2010, Silva received an offer from Real Madrid. But he refused. Because his family didn't want to move to Spain. And Milan also refused.
Thiago stayed in Italy until 2012, although the contract was extended until June 30, 2016. In one more season, he managed to serve as the captain of Milan, and even received the Golden Samba prize, awarded to the best Brazilian players playing in Europe.
After playing 93 matches and scoring 5 goals, he and his teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic went to France to play for Paris Saint-Germain. He was immediately appointed captain. The contract was initially signed for 5 years, but then extended until 2020. During his Parisian career, Thiago Silva played 158 matches and scored 9 goals.
Team
Thiago Silva has been playing for ten years now. national team Brazil. The most memorable, of course, was the “home” World Championship, held in 2014.
He was quite controversial. The team, being the favorite, had a great start to the championship. But the miserably lost semi-final to the Germans with a score of 7:1 morally destroyed the entire squad. And especially Silva. After all, he was unable to participate in that game because he earned too many yellow cards, and therefore was disqualified.
But, as they say, life went on. Carlos Dunga, new coach, has not lost faith in Thiago. But he still handed over the captain’s armband to Neymar, and then to Miranda.
In 2015, Silva participated in the Copa America with other players. The team reached the quarterfinals, where they lost to the Paraguayans. Silva was blamed for the loss. When the Brazilians were leading 2:1, he played with his hand, for which the team was punished with a penalty. The Paraguayans equalized the score and then won.
After that, unfortunately, Thiago was not even included in the application to participate in the next America's Cup, the anniversary one. However, the team in this tournament did not even advance from the group to the playoffs.
But Silva took part in the 2018 World Cup. Although modestly, he played only 5 matches. Unfortunately, the player was one of those affected by the 2014 fiasco.
Thiago Silva has managed to reach dizzying heights in football, becoming the highest paid defender in Europe. The Brazilian is also the leader of one of the strongest clubs in the world - Paris Saint-Germain. However, climbing to the sporting Olympus was not easy. The footballer suffered setbacks, but boldly moved forward.
Childhood and youth
You can’t envy Tiago’s early biography. The football player was born in the slums of Rio de Janeiro into a single-parent poor family. Mom raised two more children, a son and a daughter. In an interview, the woman admitted that fate miraculously gave Tiago a chance to live - she wanted to have an abortion, knowing that with the birth of her third child, her already miserable existence would become simply unbearable.
But it is not so easy to legally get rid of a fetus in Brazil; you need good reasons for this. The athlete owes his appearance to his grandfather, who managed to persuade his daughter not to take sin on her soul.
The family lived in a dilapidated house, where three children shared one room. Tiago, who grew up in a criminal area, has been friends with bad companies since childhood. He says that only faith in God saved him from the last steps to the “abyss.” And also football - from morning to night the boy kicked the ball with his neighbor, another future celebrity.
Over time, football turned into a real passion, Silva had a dream to make sports career. At the age of 14, the teenager joined the ranks of the wards of the Campo Grande school, which was supervised by FC Fluminense. But he couldn’t stay there. Afterwards he moved to Barcelona (Rio de Janeiro) and turned into a fan of the Catalan Barça, enthusiastically following the successes of Romario.
Football
Adult football burst into Thiago’s life in 2004. The young man was taken over by the unremarkable Juventude. European clubs began to pay attention to the talented Brazilian, who occupied the position of defender on the field.
Even Bruno Conti from Roma looked closely at the player, but was refused by Silva. Without waiting for the final of the first season in the top division of Brazil, the guy left for Portugal, where he began to defend the honor of the Porto reserve team. The transfer fee was €2.5 million.
The young man never made it into the Porto team, where Jorge Costa also stood in defense. But he made friends with his future agent Jorge Mendes, who made a tempting, but very unusual offer - to move to Russia. This is how Thiago Silva ended up in Dynamo Moscow.
The football player was extremely unlucky. The Brazilian received admiring praise from the Blue and White coach at his debut training session. The only thing I didn’t like was that Thiago got tired quickly. It turned out that the athlete had an open form of tuberculosis. He spent six months in a Moscow hospital.
The footballer had mixed impressions about Russia. On the one hand, I’m disappointed that I didn’t get to play with the Russians, but on the other hand, I’m grateful for the care and attention - Dynamo general director Yuri Zavarzin made arrangements for the footballer’s mother to come to the Russian capital.
Two years later, one incident spoiled the attitude towards Russia. In 2006, the Dynamo club released the recovered Brazilian in peace, terminating his contract. But later, having learned about the purchase of the player by Milan for €10 million, the organization started a legal conflict. Muscovites filed a lawsuit against Silva for unauthorized termination of the contract and demanded the return of the allegedly prescribed compensation in the amount of €15 million. The court rejected the claim.
After an unsuccessful career on Russian soil, Thiago returned to his homeland, where he was welcomed back by Fluminense FC. Here the young man finally turned around. He quickly got into shape, held the defense fiercely, for which he received the nickname “Monster”.
The collection of awards sparkled with the Brazilian Cup. Then the country called the player to the national team, and in 2008 Silva won bronze in Olympic Games, and four years later the team brought silver.
Soon, Milan acquired the Brazilian defender. Tall and light (with a height of 183 cm, the athlete weighs 79 kg), in addition, the incredibly talented Tiago fell in love with Alessandro Nesta and. The latter, who led the team, even named the Brazilian his successor.
With Milan, Silva became a leader, played 93 matches and scored three goals. The team became the champion of Italy and also won the country's Super Cup. Thiago was going to stay at the club for a long time, but Paris Saint-Germain bought him in 2012, offering Berlusconi an excellent price - €42 million.
At PSG, the player received a T-shirt with number 2. He quickly adapted to the team and began to manage the defense. Together with his teammates, he won 15 trophies, including four French League Cups. He dreams of being in first place in the Champions League. The Brazilian has a contract with the Parisians until 2020.
Personal life
The football player has not been free for a long time. Tiago's wife's name is Isabel, the girl has already given her husband two children - sons Isago and Iago.
Isabelle is the athlete’s support and support; the couple makes all decisions together. In 2009, the Brazilian defender ended up in Milan precisely at the request of his wife. Real Madrid claimed him, but the girl rejected the prospect of settling in Spain, preferring Italy.
The football player regularly maintains the page on "Instagram", does not skimp on photos and videos with moments from his professional and personal life.
Thiago Silva now
In 2017, Thiago Silva combined his work at PSG with training in the Brazilian national team, which was competing for participation in the football championship world 2018. IN qualifying match against Bolivia, the Brazilian suffered a serious injury, asking for a substitution in the 29th minute. The player left the field on a stretcher.
Silva was included in the national team, and in June 2018 he went to Russia. The team passed brilliantly group stage, beating Switzerland, Costa Rica and Serbia. In the game with the Serbs, Thiago scored the second goal. In the 1/8 finals, the Brazilians defeated Mexico victoriously, reaching the quarterfinals, where they met with the Belgian national team.
There were some dramatic moments within the team. Thiago Silva, during a game with the Costa Rica national team, played according to the rules of fair play and returned the ball to the opponent after one of the players knocked it out of bounds.
The Costa Rican did this because he was lying on the lawn so that the medical service could provide assistance to the Brazilian striker. But Neymar himself was dissatisfied with the fair play principles demonstrated by Silva and insulted his national team colleague.
Awards
- 2007 - Brazilian Cup
- 2011 - Italian champion
- 2011 - Italian Super Cup
- Five-time French champion (5)
- Four French Super Cups
- Four French League Cups
- Two French Cups
- 2008 - Olympic bronze medalist
- 2012 - Olympic silver medalist
- 2013 - Confederations Cup
Thiago Silva was born on September 22, 1984. The beginning of his football journey was very difficult. Being a graduate of Fluminense, Silva did not get the opportunity to prove himself. At the age of fifteen, Thiago went through a number of trials at other clubs, but was not accepted anywhere. In 2001, the footballer moved to the modest RG Football and began playing professionally in the Brazilian third division. At one of the tournaments taking place in Italy, the coach of Roma's youth team drew attention to Silva, but the young player refused to move.
Silva managed to make a name for himself as part of Giventude. The defender was named the discovery of the season, and, as expected, European clubs began to be interested in him. Thiago moved to Porto, but played only for the reserve team. After this, the Brazilian became a player for Dynamo Moscow, but was immediately struck down by a terrible disease - tuberculosis. Doctors even told Silva that if he had been hospitalized two weeks later, everything could have ended fatal. The footballer began to think about retiring from his career, but changed his mind.
In 2006, Silva returned to Fluminense and began showing football there. high level. In three seasons, Thiago has become best defender Brazil, and therefore rumors again began to link him with a move to many European clubs. At the end of 2008, Silva agreed to move to Milan. In his last match for Fluminense, the player was greeted by 50 thousand fans gathered at the Maracanã.
At first, Silva could not play for Milan, because the club did not have places in the application for non-EU players. Only in the 2009/10 season did the Brazilian make his debut in official match and immediately won praise. So, Paolo Maldini called Silva his follower. For three years, the Brazilian demonstrated reliable defensive play and helped the Rossoneri win the championship title. In 2012, a protracted transfer saga involving Thiago culminated in his transfer to PSG. In France, the player quickly earned recognition and even became team captain. Since then, Silva has helped the Parisian club win trophies year after year.
Silva has been playing for the Brazilian national team since 2008. Thiago won the Confederations Cup with the Seleçao in 2013. At that tournament, he played all five matches without substitution, and was the team captain. A year later, Silva was one of the leaders Brazilian team already at the home world championship. It is interesting that in the famous disastrous semi-final, in which Brazil lost to Germany 1:7, Thiago did not play due to too much yellow cards. After the 2015 Copa America, Silva stopped being called up to the Seleçao, but later returned.
