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Gareth Bale<\/strong><\/p>\n Gareth Bale confirmed he would postpone thoughts of retirement after saying that helping Wales to World Cup qualification is \u201cwhat dreams are made of.\u201d<\/p>\n Bale, without a club following his departure as a free agent from Real Madrid last week, saw his first-half free kick against Ukraine deflect off the head of Andriy Yarmolenko to seal a 1-0 playoff victory in Cardiff to end Wales\u2019s 64-year wait to qualify for the World Cup.<\/p>\n Sources told ESPN that the 32-year-old had been prepared to retire from football if Wales had failed to reach Qatar.<\/p>\n But with their place in Group B alongside England, the United States and Iran now secure, Bale said he would shelve plans to quit.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe for a little bit!\u201d Bale said. \u201cThe result is the greatest in Welsh football history. We\u2019re going to a World Cup!<\/p>\n \u201cIt means everything, what dreams are made of, we\u2019ve been working towards it since I first came in here. Words can\u2019t describe how we feel at the moment.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s what we\u2019ve been working all our careers for and to do this for the fans, the nation, ourselves and our families is an incredible achievement, and it will be something that we will be forever proud of.<\/p>\n \u201cIt means everything. It is the last piece of the jigsaw that we all wanted and we\u2019re going to celebrate well tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n Nine saves by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey were crucial as Wales held off fierce Ukraine pressure to win, and he said it was the best game he had played for his country.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone on the pitch tonight was amazing,\u201d Hennessey said. \u201cThat\u2019s the best game I\u2019ve had in a Welsh shirt, I\u2019m buzzing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re a small nation, and it\u2019s great to take everyone to a World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Gareth Bale Gareth Bale confirmed he would postpone thoughts of retirement after saying that helping Wales to World Cup qualification is \u201cwhat dreams are made of.\u201d Bale, without a club following his departure as a free agent from Real Madrid last week, saw his first-half free kick against Ukraine deflect off the head of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[15916,3347,3015],"class_list":["post-1113398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bale","tag-postpones","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}