{"id":4499,"date":"2019-08-08T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:09:17","slug":"diego-forlan-announces-retirement-from-professional-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/diego-forlan-announces-retirement-from-professional-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Forlan announces retirement from professional football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Uruguay captain Diego Forlan announces retirement from professional football at the age of 40. Forlan had been without a team since a brief spell last year with Kitchee Sports in Hong Kong. &#8220;I&#8217;ve decided to stop playing professional football,&#8221; said Forlan in quotes made to local television station Teledoce, and picked up in daily newspaper El Observador. &#8220;Recently I had an offer to play, but I was looking for excuses. I was being more selective and it was difficult,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, the striker helped Uruguay win the Copa America, a\ncompetition both his father and grandfather won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also named the best player at the 2010 World Cup in\nSouth Africa where Uruguay finished fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He began his senior career with Argentina&#8217;s Independiente\nbefore a big-money move to Manchester United, where he won the English title in\n2003 and the FA Cup a year later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Diego Forlan never managed to hold down a regular starting berth at Old Trafford and enjoyed his best spell in Spain, first with Villarreal and then Atletico Madrid, where he won the Europa League in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a year at Inter Milan in Italy he went on to play in\nBrazil, Japan, India and back home with local giants Penarol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He scored 36 goals in 112 matches for his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Uruguay captain Diego Forlan announces retirement from professional football at the age of 40. Forlan had been without a team since a brief spell last year with Kitchee Sports in Hong Kong. &#8220;I&#8217;ve decided to stop playing professional football,&#8221; said Forlan in quotes made to local television station Teledoce, and picked up in daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-diego-forlan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}