{"id":12303,"date":"2025-07-22T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12303\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:26:12","slug":"carlton-blues-cancer-survivor-sam-docherty-retires-one-more-game-then-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12303\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlton Blues cancer survivor Sam Docherty retires, one more game then calls it quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlton defender Sam Docherty has announced that he will retire following the Blues&#8217; fixture on Thursday night at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>Docherty will put a full stop at the end of his storied playing career after 184 senior games.<\/p>\n<p>A strong leadership figure at Princes Park, Docherty has overcome two bouts of testicular cancer to extend his playing career. He also missed the 2018 and 2019 seasons after undergoing back-to-back ACL reconstructions.<\/p>\n<p>Docherty went under the knife for multiple surgeries and also had chemotherapy treatment, returning to football each time due to his &#8220;resilience, strength and on-and-off-field brilliance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 08: Sam Docherty of the Blues is congratulated by team mates after kicking a goal during the First Elimination Final AFL match between Carlton Blues and Sydney Swans at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on September 08, 2023, in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/982840cb88e3e4f76bf46f601e2d34bdf3672c41.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-ixGGxD jVYTFW\">Sam Docherty in action for the Blues.\u00a0Quinn Rooney via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton defender Sam Docherty has announced that he will retire following the Blues&#8217; fixture on Thursday night at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-12303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}