{"id":100414,"date":"2021-07-15T02:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100414"},"modified":"2021-07-15T02:57:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:57:06","slug":"carlton-legend-sergio-silvagni-dead-aged-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100414","title":{"rendered":"Carlton legend Sergio Silvagni dead, aged 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL community is in mourning following the death of Carlton legend Sergio &#x27;Serge&#x27; Silvagni who has died aged 83.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues icon, who is father to full-back-of-the-century Stephen and current club forward Jack passed away on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Silvagni played 239 games for Carlton between 1958 and 1971, winning premierships in 1968 and 1970.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b830afc8-4f81-47ea-a42a-93a9ad25fdc4\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b830afc8-4f81-47ea-a42a-93a9ad25fdc4\" alt=\"Sergio Silvagni was a Carlton legend.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Silvagni was named in Carlton&#x27;s team of the century and was inducted into the club&#x27;s hall of fame in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Following his retirement in 1971, Silvagni held several off-field roles at Carlton, including becoming a committee member, selector and reserves coach.<\/p>\n<p>Silvagni is survived by wife Rita, son Stephen and three daughters Lisa, Danielle and Michelle.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3f91baf6-d168-4096-9a64-f33f0337d578\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3f91baf6-d168-4096-9a64-f33f0337d578\" alt=\"Stephen Silvagni poses with his father Sergio. \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The AFL community is in mourning following the death of Carlton legend Sergio &#x27;Serge&#x27; Silvagni who has died aged 83. The Blues icon, who is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100414\" title=\"Carlton legend Sergio Silvagni dead, aged 83\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100416,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100414\/revisions\/100416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}