{"id":1053,"date":"2023-03-25T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:15:23","slug":"ibrahimovic-becomes-euro-qualifier-oldest-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/ibrahimovic-becomes-euro-qualifier-oldest-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahimovic Becomes Euro Qualifier Oldest Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the 41-year-old Swedish striker, on Friday, became the oldest player to feature in a European championship qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ibrahimovic set the landmark when he came on as a 73rd-minute substitute in the Euro 2024 group game against Belgium in Solna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At 41 years, five months and 21 days, he is now ahead of former Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff, who played against Sweden on May 29, 1983, at 41 years, three months and one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AC Milan\u2019s Ibrahimovic last weekend became the <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/ibrahimovic-becomes-oldest-scorer-in-serie-a-history\/\">oldest player to score a goal in Serie A<\/a> history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier this week, he insisted he wants to play at the Euro finals in Germany next year when he will be 42 and the oldest player to ever participate in the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the 41-year-old Swedish striker, on Friday, became the oldest player to feature in a European championship qualifier. Ibrahimovic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}