{"id":28603,"date":"2024-12-17T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/former-usa-captain-becky-sauerbrunn-retires-after-glittering-16-year-career\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:17:48","slug":"former-usa-captain-becky-sauerbrunn-retires-after-glittering-16-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/former-usa-captain-becky-sauerbrunn-retires-after-glittering-16-year-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Former USA captain Becky Sauerbrunn retires after glittering 16-year career"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sauerbrunn to retire after 219 international appearances<\/li>\n<li>Defender won two World Cups and Olympic gold medal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two-time World Cup winner and former US national team captain Becky Sauerbrunn has retired from professional soccer after a 16-year career, the 39-year-old defender said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time NWSL defender of the year, Sauerbrunn hoisted the championship trophy in the top-flight American league three times and won Olympic gold with the United States in 2012. She missed the World Cup in 2023 due to injury.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2024\/dec\/17\/becky-sauerbrunn-retires-uswnt-captain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sauerbrunn to retire after 219 international appearances Defender won two World Cups and Olympic gold medal Two-time World Cup winner and former US national team captain Becky Sauerbrunn has retired from professional soccer after a 16-year career, the 39-year-old defender said on Tuesday. The four-time NWSL defender of the year, Sauerbrunn hoisted the championship trophy &#8230; <a title=\"Former USA captain Becky Sauerbrunn retires after glittering 16-year career\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/former-usa-captain-becky-sauerbrunn-retires-after-glittering-16-year-career\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former USA captain Becky Sauerbrunn retires after glittering 16-year career\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}