{"id":31036,"date":"2016-12-25T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31036"},"modified":"2016-12-25T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T12:49:07","slug":"liverpool-napoli-in-race-to-sign-brazilian-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31036","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool, Napoli in race to sign Brazilian defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-31035\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1.jpg\" alt=\"Thiago Maia 1\" width=\"520\" height=\"368\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Rio de Janeiro: Liverpool and Napoli are among several European clubs interested in signing teenage Brazilian midfielder Thiago Maia, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old, who is contracted to Brazilian outfit Santos until June 2019, is also being sought Monaco, Schalke and Zenit Saint-Petersburg, Xinhua news agency quoted Brazilian publication Sambafoot as reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Maia said he would decide his future upon returning from vacation on January 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Santos and my representatives will decide if it&#8217;s time for a transfer,&#8221; the defensive midfielder was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Maia has made 91 first-team appearances for Santos since his debut in 2014. He has represented his country at under 17, under 20 and under 23 level, and was a part of the Brazil team that won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics in August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-31035\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1.jpg\" alt=\"Thiago Maia 1\" width=\"520\" height=\"368\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thiago-Maia-1-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Rio de Janeiro: Liverpool and Napoli are among several European clubs interested in signing teenage Brazilian midfielder Thiago Maia, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old, who is contracted to Brazilian outfit Santos until June 2019, is also being sought Monaco, Schalke and Zenit Saint-Petersburg, Xinhua news agency quoted Brazilian publication Sambafoot as reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12975,466,1472,1919,19831],"class_list":["post-31036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-liverpool","tag-napoli","tag-thiago-maia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool, Napoli in race to sign Brazilian defender - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/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:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31036\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liverpool, Napoli in race to sign Brazilian defender - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rio de Janeiro: Liverpool and Napoli are among several European clubs interested in signing teenage Brazilian midfielder Thiago Maia, according to media reports. 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