{"id":88584,"date":"2025-11-26T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/david-luiz-38-years-old-scores-historic-goal-in-champions-league-with-pafos\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:10:08","slug":"david-luiz-38-years-old-scores-historic-goal-in-champions-league-with-pafos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/david-luiz-38-years-old-scores-historic-goal-in-champions-league-with-pafos\/","title":{"rendered":"David Luiz, 38 years old, scores historic goal in Champions League with Pafos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">David Luiz shines again in the Champions League<\/h2>\n\n\nAt 38 years old, David Luiz has scored a goal in the Champions League again, a feat he hadn&#8217;t achieved in over eight years.\n\nThe Brazilian defender, now playing for Pafos, demonstrated his quality by heading a ball from a corner kick, sending it directly into the upper corner of AS Monaco&#8217;s goal. This goal tied the score at 1-1 in the 18th minute of the match.\n\nWith 38 years and 218 days, David Luiz becomes the second oldest player to score in the history of the Champions League. He is only surpassed by the Portuguese defender Pepe, who scored at 40 years and 290 days.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1126%2Fr1581100_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"David Luiz anotando en la Champions League\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nDavid Luiz hadn&#8217;t scored in the competition since October 2017, when he played for Chelsea.\n\nHe was a key player in the Chelsea team that won the Champions League in 2012 and also played in the competition with Paris Saint-Germain.\n\nHis Champions League debut was with Benfica in 2007.\n\nDavid Luiz returned to Europe in August, after four seasons in Brazil, to join Pafos, the Cypriot champion, in their debut in the competition.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Luiz shines again in the Champions League At 38 years old, David Luiz has scored a goal in the Champions League again, a feat he hadn&#8217;t achieved in over eight years. The Brazilian defender, now playing for Pafos, demonstrated his quality by heading a ball from a corner kick, sending it directly into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,10734,2020,10735],"class_list":{"0":"post-88584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-david-luiz","10":"tag-goal","11":"tag-pafos"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}