{"id":591174,"date":"2026-04-07T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:04:07","slug":"ex-arsenal-wales-midfielder-aaron-ramsey-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591174\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Arsenal, Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Aaron Ramsey has called time on his career.\u00a0Robin Jones\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8185a878-0157-7fe7-9fa8-f1cb3812476b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=578\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> midfielder <a data-player-guid=\"2106f848-6868-c195-32d9-9df1ec06dc1b\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/98681\/aaron-ramsey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Ramsey<\/a> has announced his retirement from football.<\/p>\n<p>Ramsey&#8217;s last competitive appearance came in September 2025 for <a data-league-guid=\"4ddd2419-cd7e-3a4f-b50f-807484906a41\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/league\/_\/name\/MEX.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liga MX<\/a> side Pumas, who he left after making just six appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old is a stalwart of Welsh football, and featured in three major tournaments for his country. In all, he made 86 appearances for <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8185a878-0157-7fe7-9fa8-f1cb3812476b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=578\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> and scored 21 goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been my privilege to wear the Welsh shirt and experience so many incredible moments in it,&#8221; Ramsey said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would not have been possible without the incredible input of all the managers I have played under and all the staff who have helped me in many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48410592\/arsenal-need-mikel-arteta-step-now-avoid-disaster-premier-league-champions-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arsenal need Mikel Arteta to step up now to avoid disaster again<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48109124\/gareth-bale-man-united-made-bigger-offer-i-wanted-real-madrid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gareth Bale: Man United made a bigger offer for me but I wanted Real Madrid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ramsey&#8217;s club career was defined by his time at Arsenal, where he made over 250 appearances and scored 40 goals.<\/p>\n<p>A key moment in the midfielder&#8217;s Arsenal career came at the Brittania Stadium in 2010, where he suffered a horrific injury. He spent nearly a year out of action due to a double leg-break.<\/p>\n<p>He bounced back admirably and wrote himself into Arsenal&#8217;s history books by scoring winners in two FA Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p>Following his exit from Arsenal in 2019, Ramsey had spells at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"87fe4844-a7cf-c88e-2ebe-aeb57325e990\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juventus<\/a>, Rangers, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d35755ed-abb2-5c04-b9e1-6ba5f9dd2b1c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=2502\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nice<\/a> and Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to all the clubs I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to play for. Thank you to all the managers and staff that have helped me be able to live my dream and play at the highest level,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Ramsey has called time on his career.\u00a0Robin Jones\/Getty Images Former Arsenal and Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591174","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=591174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}