{"id":3388,"date":"2026-09-14T21:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2026-09-14T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T21:22:47","slug":"atletico-madrid-star-equals-bobby-charltons-iconic-man-united-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"Atl\u00e9tico\u00a0Madrid star equals Bobby Charlton\u2019s iconic Man United benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Atl\u00e9tico\u00a0Madrid star <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/player\/koke-94\">Koke<\/a> this weekend continued his climb up a list of all-time greats across the European football landscape. This came courtesy of his latest appearance in the colours of the Rojiblancos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Diego Simeone\u2019s troops were back in action on Sunday evening, making the trip to Anoeta for a <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-sociedad-223\">Real Sociedad<\/a>. When all was said and done in an impressive bounce-back performance, Atl\u00e9ti emerged on the right side of a 3-0 result.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The aforementioned Koke, meanwhile, played his part, introduced off the bench on the hour mark in San Sebastian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And as alluded to above, in the process, the veteran midfielder secured for himself a piece of football history. As per a statement across Atl\u00e9tico\u2019s social media platforms:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2018Last night our captain matched a football legend: Sir Bobby Charlton. 746 matches with the team of his life. Koke. The legend continues.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Koke now sits behind only seven names when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TMes_news\/status\/2099203960733089827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">one-club players<\/a> in the history of the sport, namely Ryan Giggs, Paolo Maldini, Javier Zanetti, Igor Akinfeev, Francesco Totti, Giuseppe Bergomi, and Jean-Luc Ettori.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/atleticomadrid-star-equals-bobby-charltons-iconic-man-united-benchmark-43460704\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atl\u00e9tico\u00a0Madrid star Koke this weekend continued his climb up a list of all-time greats across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434607043Fdate2026-09-14.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}