{"id":548356,"date":"2026-03-18T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:46:12","slug":"schmeichel-i-may-have-played-my-last-football-match-the-danish-goalkeepers-injury-is-extremely-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548356\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmeichel: &#8220;I may have played my last football match.&#8221; The Danish goalkeeper&#8217;s injury is extremely serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been a footballer since I was born. It&#8217;s devastating. At the moment, I&#8217;m really struggling to come to terms with what&#8217;s happened,&#8221; Golazo told CBS Sports, in front of his father Peter, himself a former goalkeeper and pundit on the programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Tuesday I received the news that this could be the end of my career. By the time I\u2019m fit again, I might be over 40.&#8221; Recovery time is estimated at 11\u201312 months. &#8220;I\u2019ll do everything I can to see if I can make a comeback. It would probably be one of the greatest achievements of my career if I managed to recover from an injury like this. I\u2019ll fight, I\u2019ll try everything I can. I\u2019ll do the rehab.&#8221; But what kind of injury is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ve been a footballer since I was born. It&#8217;s devastating. At the moment, I&#8217;m really struggling to come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,113571,596,271285,85],"class_list":["post-548356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celtic","tag-football","tag-k-schmeichel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548356","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=548356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}