{"id":10609,"date":"2021-07-16T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=126855"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:44:10","slug":"rafael-crivellaro-signs-new-contract-with-chennaiyin-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/rafael-crivellaro-signs-new-contract-with-chennaiyin-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Crivellaro signs new contract with Chennaiyin FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacking midfielder Rafael Crivellaro has extended his contract on a multi-year deal with Chennaiyin FC, the winners of two ISL titles.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">A game against ATK Mohun Bagan resulted in an ankle injury to CFC\u2019s captain in 2020-21, which knocked the 32-year old Brazilian out for almost half the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to continue with Chennaiyin FC. Ever since I joined the club, I\u2019ve had a special bond with the fans, the city and the staff. I love Chennai. For me, it always felt like home,\u201d he was quoted as saying in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast season, injury kept me away, and now I can\u2019t wait to get back with the team and give it everything on the field,\u201d the Brazilian said on his return to the club for a third straight season.<\/p>\n<p>Crivallero, according to Chennaiyin FC co-owner Vita Dani, has been instrumental to the team since he joined the Chennai-based club. Across his 27 appearances for CFC, Crivellaro is considered one of the most consistent players in the ISL. A goal-scorer and an assist-maker in the 2019-20 season, he was one of the clubs key contributors with seven goals and eight assists.<\/p>\n<p>Crivellaro has played in one of the most prestigious club competitions in the world, the Europa League, in addition to playing with Portuguese top-tier side Vitoria Guimaraes, which won the Taca de Portugal (Portuguese Cup) in 2012-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Crivellaro on Friday extended his stay at two-time ISL winners Chennaiyin FC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2057,1227,1290,55,200,653,418,1579,654,2186,922],"class_list":["post-10609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-atk","tag-atk-mohun-bagan","tag-atk-mohun-bagan-fc","tag-brazil","tag-chennai","tag-chennaiyin-fc","tag-europa-league","tag-indian-super-league","tag-isl","tag-mohun-bagan","tag-portugal"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}