David Silva - Manchester, UK - Living Statues on Waymarking.com

A team named Manchester City Football Club has been in existence since 1894. They moved into this current stadium in 2003, after it had been built for the Commonwealth Games held in Manchester in 2002. It was used as an Athletics stadium in the Common Wealth Games and had a running track, but when Manchester City took over the stadium, the running track was removed.

The club was promoted to the Premier League in the 2002-2003 season and in 2008 were taken over by the United Arab Emirates Vice President, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan through the Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008. He invested heavily in the club and the club's performances started to improve.

When the club won the league in 2012 it was the first time they had won the top tier of the football league since the 1960s, which at that time was League Division One.

The team continued to have much further success and so decided in 2021 to erect the statues of three of their most iconic players in that era to celebrate the tenth anniversary of winning the Premier League title.

The statues are twice life size and were created by sculptor Andy Scott and have been constructed using thousands of welded pieces of galvanised steel. At night-time the statues are illuminated with blue tinted lighting; blue being the team's colour.

David Silva is depicted playing in his football kit, whilst running with the ball at his feet.

"David Josué Jiménez Silva (born 8 January 1986) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Real Sociedad. Silva plays mainly as a central or an attacking midfielder but can also play as a winger or second striker. He is predominantly a left-footed player and his passing ability and possession-retaining qualities have earned him the nicknames "Merlin" and "El Mago" from his teammates and fans. He is considered to be one of the greatest midfielders of his generation.

Silva spent seven years of his professional career with Valencia CF, appearing in more than 160 games and winning a Copa del Rey in 2008. In the summer of 2010, he moved to Manchester City and has since appeared in over 400 matches. With them he has won two FA Cups, five League Cups and four Premier League titles. He is regarded as one of Manchester City's greatest ever players alongside Billy Meredith, Bert Trautmann, Colin Bell, Vincent Kompany and Sergio Agüero. Silva has been named in the PFA Team of the Year three times. On 26 June 2019, Silva announced that he would leave Manchester City at the end of the 2019–20 season, ending his ten-season tenure at the club. On 28 September 2019, he became the youngest player to reach 200 wins in the Premier league, breaking the record set by Chelsea defender John Terry." link

On the rear of the plinth of the statue is the following plaque.

David Silva

Affectionately known as "El Mago", The Magician. Spanish international midfielder.
World Cup and European Championships winner.
From 2010 to 2020 he played 436 games for City, scoring 77 goals and winning 14 trophies.

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