{"id":36617,"date":"2018-07-09T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=36617"},"modified":"2018-07-09T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:40:06","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2018-sergei-ignashevich-retires-after-russias-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/fifa-world-cup-2018-sergei-ignashevich-retires-after-russias-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2018: Sergei Ignashevich retires after Russia&#8217;s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defender Sergei Ignashevich has announced his retirement from football after Russia lost to Croatia in the World Cup quarter-finals. The 38-year-old holds the Russian record for most international appearances with 127 and his last act on a football field was to convert a penalty in Saturday&#8217;s shootout loss to Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>In a video statement released by the Russian team, Ignashevich says &#8220;I feel pleasure and peace because I&#8217;m finishing on a high note by playing at the World Cup, in a quarterfinal with an excellent team and an excellent coach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He adds that he would have retired earlier if not for the World Cup and now plans to become a coach.<\/p>\n<p>Ignashevich started all five of the host nation&#8217;s games at the World Cup. He won the UEFA Cup with CSKA Moscow in 2005, as well as six Russian titles, five with CSKA and one with Lokomotiv Moscow.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defender Sergei Ignashevich has announced his retirement from football after Russia lost to Croatia in the World Cup quarter-finals. The 38-year-old holds the Russian record for most international appearances with 127 and his last act on a football field was to convert a penalty in Saturday&#8217;s shootout loss to Croatia. In a video statement released [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36619,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617\/revisions\/36619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}