{"id":25267,"date":"2013-02-11T13:52:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/injury-force-gordon-to-mull-retirement\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T13:52:55","slug":"injury-force-gordon-to-mull-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/11\/injury-force-gordon-to-mull-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury force Gordon to mull retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"73\">\n<p>GLASGOW (AFP) \u2013 Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon has said that he may be forced to retire at the age of 30 due to a persistent knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The former Hearts shot-stopper has been without a club since leaving Sunderland at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>He moved to Wearside in 2007 to join the then manager of the Black Cats, Roy Keane, for a record transfer fee of \u00a39 million (10.5 million euros) and initially impressed between the sticks.<\/p>\n<p>But his latter years at the northeast club were wrecked by a succession of injuries, including two broken arms and then the knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing problems with the knee have meant that he has been without a club this season.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon was among Dumbarton manager Ian Murray\u2019s backroom team on Saturday after taking up an offer to help out on an informal basis and he admits coaching could be his future.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon told Dumbarton\u2019s website: \u201cIt\u2019s very unlikely I will be playing again this season. In fact I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019ll play again, so I\u2019m looking to get into coaching as I want to remain in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not ruling out playing again, but I need to get things in place if the news is not good in that respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added in a number of national newspapers: \u201cI\u2019ve had a couple of surgeries on it, but it\u2019s definitely not back to 100 per cent yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully I can get back to playing with a bit of pain. It\u2019s about getting to a stage where I can get what I need to out of the knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s part of the reason I wanted to go into coaching, you don\u2019t know when the end might come for playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m certainly not ready to throw in the towel just yet but it\u2019s been a long time and I don\u2019t know where I\u2019ll be going in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> GLASGOW (AFP) \u2013 Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon has said that he may be forced to retire at the age of 30 due to a persistent knee injury. The former Hearts shot-stopper has been without a club since leaving Sunderland at the end of last season. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}