{"id":172648,"date":"2025-08-05T21:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:43:29","slug":"estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players","title":{"rendered":"Estevao speaks highly of two ex-Chelsea players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>New Chelsea player Estevao has spoken glowingly about two former Blues players, Eden Hazard and Thiago Silva, after he was officially unveiled today at Cobham.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian international, who agreed a deal last year to join Chelsea from Palmeiras, also described himself as a \u201cchild of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during his first interview after his unveiling, Estevao said he used to watch Hazard play, describing him as an \u201cace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old also praised Silva, noting that the veteran centre-back had spoken to him about the west London club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a child of God, a calm boy,\u201d Estevao began, as quoted by Chelsea\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEden Hazard is the one that I watched the most at Chelsea. He\u2019s ace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter I had signed for Chelsea and in the final game of 2024, I played against Thiago Silva. He came and talked to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said I was going to love Chelsea. And now [I\u2019m here], I can see how amazing this club is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. New Chelsea player Estevao has spoken glowingly about two former Blues players, Eden Hazard and Thiago Silva, after he was officially unveiled today at Cobham. The Brazilian international, who agreed a deal last year to join Chelsea from Palmeiras, also described himself as a \u201cchild of God.\u201d Speaking during his first interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":172647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[485,18268,254],"class_list":["post-172648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-chelsea","tag-estevao","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Estevao speaks highly of two ex-Chelsea players - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New Chelsea player Estevao has spoken glowingly about two former Blues players, Eden Hazard and Thiago Silva, after he w ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Estevao speaks highly of two ex-Chelsea players\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Chelsea player Estevao has spoken glowingly about two former Blues players, Eden Hazard and Thiago Silva, after he w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-05T20:43:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-05T21:43:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754417740.222745.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"946\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Estevao speaks highly of two ex-Chelsea players\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-05T20:43:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-05T21:43:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players\"},\"wordCount\":182,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754417740.222745.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"chelsea\",\"Estev\u00e3o\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/estevao-speaks-highly-of-two-ex-chelsea-players\",\"name\":\"Estevao speaks highly of two ex-Chelsea players - 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