Paolo Cannavaro is set to join his brother Fabio at\u00a0Guangzhou Evergrande as the technical staff.<\/p>\n
The defender announced on Thursday that his match against Roma with Serie A side Sassuolo will be his last game as the professional footballer.<\/p>\n
\u201cA new year, a new life \u2026 it will be an odd feeling. I won\u2019t miss the field because it\u2019s a decision I\u2019ve made, but I will miss being around my teammates,\u201d he said, as quoted by South China Morning Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Begining his career at his hometown club Napoli as a teenager, Cannavaro played alongside brother Fabio at Parma for six seasons.<\/p>\n After that,\u00a0the 36-year-old returned to Napoli via a season at Hellas Verona.<\/p>\n In 2006, he rejoined Napoli and making more than 200 appearances in eight years with his boyhood club before playing for Sassuolo outfit in 2014.<\/p>\n In November, Fabio Cannavaro<\/a> has returned for a second spell as Guangzhou Evergrande coach, succeeding Luiz Felipe Scolari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paolo Cannavaro is set to join his brother Fabio at\u00a0Guangzhou Evergrande as the technical staff. The defender announced on Thursday that his match against Roma with Serie A side Sassuolo will be his last game as the professional footballer. \u201cA new year, a new life \u2026 it will be an odd feeling. I won\u2019t miss the field because it\u2019s a decision I\u2019ve made, but I will miss being around my teammates,\u201d he said, as quoted by South China Morning Post. Begining his career at his hometown club Napoli as a teenager, Cannavaro played alongside brother Fabio at Parma for six seasons. After that,\u00a0the 36-year-old returned to Napoli via a season … Continue reading “Paolo Cannavaro set to join his brother Fabio at\u00a0Guangzhou Evergrande”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[370,112],"class_list":["post-10059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-fabio-cannavaro","tag-guangzhou-evergrande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=10059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}