{"id":39673,"date":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/ignore-retirement-league-jibes-kevin-de-bruyne-would-be-great-for-mls\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:11:49","slug":"ignore-retirement-league-jibes-kevin-de-bruyne-would-be-great-for-mls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/ignore-retirement-league-jibes-kevin-de-bruyne-would-be-great-for-mls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore \u2018retirement league\u2019 jibes \u2013 Kevin De Bruyne would be great for MLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester City star is reported to be on his way to the United States at age 34, raising a tired trope once again<\/p>\n<p>Kevin De Bruyne can\u2019t run any more. Or not like he used to anyway.<\/p>\n<p>That seems to be the verdict of his Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, who obliquely cited an absence of <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/pep-guardiolas-damning-reason-kevin-135103578.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAsgjEh4Qv6keYtA3Qeql2GDb6eBzLvCLO3O1uLCoz9qBG7v8agO-opgpmmn-aBVyDQC3fPIQbwMUSSOtw5gxR5_GSWRuXS8rD7oB3Fr9c-daFcaceR42pvooudqia2kFnxFROtZ2kdXb6GGbIfl-pRVwofIWIn76d5nMbO_zYfo\">\u201cphysicality\u201d<\/a> in his explanation for leaving De Bruyne out of the lineup against Real Madrid in February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/apr\/24\/ignore-retirement-league-jibes-kevin-de-bruyne-would-be-great-for-mls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester City star is reported to be on his way to the United States at age 34, raising a tired trope once again Kevin De Bruyne can\u2019t run any more. Or not like he used to anyway. That seems to be the verdict of his Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, who obliquely cited an &#8230; <a title=\"Ignore \u2018retirement league\u2019 jibes \u2013 Kevin De Bruyne would be great for MLS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/ignore-retirement-league-jibes-kevin-de-bruyne-would-be-great-for-mls\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ignore \u2018retirement league\u2019 jibes \u2013 Kevin De Bruyne would be great for MLS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-39673","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\/39673","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}