{"id":81180,"date":"2013-05-15T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T09:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/05\/rio-ferdinand-announces-retirement\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T09:11:41","slug":"rio-ferdinand-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/05\/15\/rio-ferdinand-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Ferdinand Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/b101101244312_678875.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c14\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\"><span class=\"speace_black_text_4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/2483\/8713721\/Rio-announces-England-retirement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"c17\">TEAMtalk<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has called time on his England career after 81 caps.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old clinched a sixth Premier League title with the Red Devils this season and admitted after Sunday&#8217;s final home game that he was keen to earn a new contract at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the FA&#8217;s website, Ferdinand said: &#8220;After a great deal of thought, I have decided the time is right for me to retire from international football.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEAMtalk : \u00a0\u00a0 Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has called time on his England career after 81 caps.The 34-year-old clinched a sixth Premier League title with the Red Devils this season and admitted after Sunday&#8217;s final home game that he was keen to earn a new contract at Old Trafford.Speaking to the FA&#8217;s website, Ferdinand said: &#8220;After a great deal of thought, I have decided the time is right for me to retire from international football.<\/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-81180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81180","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=81180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}