{"id":10052,"date":"2017-12-30T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T08:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2017-12-30T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T08:44:58","slug":"alvaro-silva-joins-kedah-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/12\/30\/alvaro-silva-joins-kedah-fa\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines international Alvaro Silva joins Malaysian side Kedah FA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kedah FA officially announced the signing of the Philippines international\u00a0Alvaro Silva on Thursday evening, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bharian.com.my\/sukan\/bola\/2017\/12\/368399\/alvaro-silva-bakal-isi-slot-import-asean-kedah\">Bharian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a surprising move as his previous club Hanoi FC had announced his departure to Thai League 1 side <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/12\/28\/alvaro-silva-leaves-hanoi-fc-sukhothai\/\">Sukhothai FC<\/a> one day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Silva will be subject to medical record checks and final evaluation by head coach\u00a0Marcote before finalizing the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The club stated that the\u00a033-year-old had received the attention of former coach Tan Cheng Hoe in the 2016 season, but a technical issue barred him from joining the Malaysian club.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Spain, Silva played for Spanish clubs\u00a0Malaga, Cadiz and Xerez. In early 2014, he managed to earn\u00a0Filipino passport as his paternal grandmother was a Filipina in order to be eligible to play for the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0national team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kedah FA officially announced the signing of the Philippines international\u00a0Alvaro Silva on Thursday evening, according to Bharian. This is a surprising move as his previous club Hanoi FC had announced his departure to Thai League 1 side Sukhothai FC one day earlier. Silva will be subject to medical record checks and final evaluation by head coach\u00a0Marcote before finalizing the deal. The club stated that the\u00a033-year-old had received the attention of former coach Tan Cheng Hoe in the 2016 season, but a technical issue barred him from joining the Malaysian club. Born in Spain, Silva played for Spanish clubs\u00a0Malaga, Cadiz and Xerez. In early 2014, he managed to earn\u00a0Filipino passport as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/12\/30\/alvaro-silva-joins-kedah-fa\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Philippines international Alvaro Silva joins Malaysian side Kedah FA&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[89,64,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}