{"id":920373,"date":"2026-10-08T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920373\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:40:10","slug":"fabio-borini-announces-retirement-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920373\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Borini announces retirement from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__lead__LA_9t\">The Italian confirmed the news in a post on social media on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">\u201cI want to thank that kid who never stopped believing,\u201d wrote Borini. \u201cAnd the man I am today will keep believing in the next opportunity, this time without a ball at my feet, but with that same belief. Always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">Borini joined the Reds during the summer of 2012, arriving from AS Roma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">He made 20 appearances across a debut campaign with Liverpool that was interrupted by injury, scoring twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">Borini spent the 2013-14 season out on loan at Sunderland, before returning to Merseyside and adding 18 games and one goal under <a class=\"rte-content_rteContent__link__VtlmO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolfc.com\/info\/brendan-rodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Rodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">He subsequently completed a permanent transfer to the Black Cats in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">Borini\u2019s senior career had begun with Chelsea, followed by moves to Swansea City, Parma and Roma prior to signing for Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">Later in his career, he also wore the shirts of AC Milan, Hellas Verona, Karagumruk, Sampdoria and Salford City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">He represented Italy at various youth levels and gained one senior cap for his country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte-content_rteContent__paragraph__iZHS_\">We wish Fabio all the best for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian confirmed the news in a post on social media on Wednesday evening. \u201cI want to thank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,488347,596,85],"class_list":["post-920373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fabio-borini","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920373","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=920373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}