{"id":636207,"date":"2026-04-29T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636207\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:39:14","slug":"england-chelsea-defender-millie-bright-retires-from-soccer-because-of-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636207\/","title":{"rendered":"England, Chelsea defender Millie Bright retires from soccer because of injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Former England defender Millie Bright announced her retirement from soccer with immediate effect at the age of 32 on Wednesday after \u201cplaying injured for the last six years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m tired. I&#8217;m just a human,\u201d Bright said in an emotional video posted by Chelsea, her club since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bright, who hasn&#8217;t played for Chelsea since February because of an ankle problem, withdrew herself from selection for last year&#8217;s European Championship \u2014 won by England \u2014 for mental and physical health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>She played 88 times for England, having a key role in the national team&#8217;s title-winning campaign at Euro 2022, and won eight league titles with Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea said Bright will remain part of the club as a trustee of its foundation and as a club ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m ready to venture off into life and to do bigger things with the club, and to do that is really, really special to me,\u201d she said. \u201cYou might losing me on the pitch but you&#8217;re certainly not losing me as being a part of Chelsea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Former England defender Millie Bright announced her retirement from soccer with immediate effect at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,562,588,237789,237788,561,82],"class_list":["post-636207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chelsea","tag-england","tag-immediate-effect","tag-millie-bright","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}