{"id":801014,"date":"2026-07-14T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801014\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:26:08","slug":"swiss-veteran-yann-sommer-joins-club-brugge-on-a-3-year-deal-in-a-bid-for-a-champions-league-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801014\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss veteran Yann Sommer joins Club Brugge on a 3-year deal in a bid for a Champions League return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"P3FGKIMADRGYFK6WWSJPCELVOY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BRUGGE, Belgium \u2014 Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer signed up for Champions League soccer with Club Brugge on Tuesday after three seasons and two Serie A titles with Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MSRUOZIOLJD5TATPD56V7NQX74\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubbrugge.be\/en\/news\/yann-sommer-to-club-brugge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brugge said<\/a> it gave the 37-year-old Sommer a three-year contract as a free agent. He will replace veteran Simon Mignolet, who retired in May aged 38 after helping Brugge win the Belgian league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUGGE, Belgium \u2014 Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer signed up for Champions League soccer with Club Brugge on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,282014,561,82],"class_list":["post-801014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soc-brugge-sommer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801014","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=801014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}