{"id":66826,"date":"2025-08-14T05:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66826\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T05:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:06:21","slug":"hawthorn-hawks-forward-luke-breust-announces-retirement-three-time-premiership-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66826\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn Hawks forward Luke Breust announces retirement, three-time premiership winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorn forward Luke Breust has announced his retirement at the conclusion of the 2025 season. <\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old has played 307 games for the club and was a key part of their premiership wins in 2013, 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The small forward has kicked 552 career goals and is the current vice captain of the club.<\/p>\n<p>He debuted in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Luke Breust of the Hawks celebrates kicking a goal during the round 19 AFL match between Hawthorn Hawks and Collingwood Magpies at Melbourne Cricket Ground on July 20, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Graham Denholm\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aafa5edafed6c67211b88bf0b5504d7d0a78b391.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-ixGGxD jVYTFW\"> Luke Breust of the Hawks celebrates kicking a goal during the round 19 AFL match between Hawthorn Hawks and Collingwood Magpies at Melbourne Cricket Ground on July 20, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Graham Denholm\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images)\u00a0via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn forward Luke Breust has announced his retirement at the conclusion of the 2025 season. The 34-year-old has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-66826","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\/66826","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=66826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}