{"id":11752,"date":"2022-11-03T23:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=255079"},"modified":"2022-11-03T23:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:21:37","slug":"gerard-pique-to-leave-fc-barcelona-plans-retirement-as-saturdays-match-against-almeria-to-be-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/gerard-pique-to-leave-fc-barcelona-plans-retirement-as-saturdays-match-against-almeria-to-be-his-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Pique to leave FC Barcelona, plans retirement as Saturday\u2019s match against Almeria to be his last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona\u2019s defender Gerard Pique has declared his retirement from the sport and that his final game will be this weekend\u2019s La Liga match against Almeria.<\/p>\n<p>In a video uploaded on social media, the defender declared that he will retire following Barcelona\u2019s La Liga encounter against Almeria on Saturday. Pique has made the choice to terminate his trophy-laden career after making only three La Liga starts this season and falling out of favour at Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">Culers, us he de dir una cosa. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k3V919pm1T\">pic.twitter.com\/k3V919pm1T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gerard Piqu\u00e9 (@3gerardpique) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3gerardpique\/status\/1588223512917184512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video uploaded on social media, the defender declared that he will retire following Barcelona\u2019s La Liga encounter against Almeria on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":34220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[238,3106],"class_list":["post-11752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-gerard-pique"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}