{"id":22773,"date":"2020-05-16T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=22773"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T07:20:35","slug":"cleiton-silva-seeking-thai-league-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/05\/16\/cleiton-silva-seeking-thai-league-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleiton Silva Seeking Thai League Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GianChansricha1\"><strong>Gian Chansrichawla<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Football Tribe SEA Editor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian forward Cleiton Silva is reportedly eyeing up a return to the Thai League, as per recent reports in various Thai media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian still holds the record for being the all-time Thai League top scorer, having found the net 141 times in 193 games for five different Thai clubs. His best spell came with Muangthong United between 2014 and 2017, a club which he departed from to join Chinese side Shanghai Shenxin.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to the league, injury-hit spells with Chiangrai United and Suphanburi have prevented the forward from reaching his best form.<\/p>\n<p>Currently without a club since being released by Suphanburi before the start of the season, the now 33-year-old is reportedly eager to return to regular football in the Thai top flight and is on the hunt for potential suitors.<\/p>\n<p>Prachuap are reportedly interested after parting ways with Bruno Mezenga during the ongoing COVID-19 break, as are Samut Prakan, who find themselves in a similar situation after parting ways with Pedro Junior. However, both would likely require the traditional left-winger to convert himself into a more central striker role.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not these clubs will be willing to take a risk on the injury-prone forward remains to be seen, but should Cleiton be able to keep himself fit, he certainly has the talent to significantly boost whichever side decides to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Chansrichawla Football Tribe SEA Editor &nbsp; Brazilian forward Cleiton Silva is reportedly eyeing up a return to the Thai League, as per recent reports in various Thai media outlets. The Brazilian still holds the record for being the all-time Thai League top scorer, having found the net 141 times in 193 games for five different Thai clubs. His best spell came with Muangthong United between 2014 and 2017, a club which he departed from to join Chinese side Shanghai Shenxin. Since returning to the league, injury-hit spells with Chiangrai United and Suphanburi have prevented the forward from reaching his best form. Currently without a club since being released by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/05\/16\/cleiton-silva-seeking-thai-league-return\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Cleiton Silva Seeking Thai League Return&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":22776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,38],"tags":[300,1730,1675,95,200,68],"class_list":["post-22773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southeast-asia","category-thailand","tag-cleiton-silva","tag-prachuap","tag-samut-prakan-city","tag-slider","tag-thai-league","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773","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=22773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22777,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions\/22777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}