{"id":425070,"date":"2026-04-30T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:34:14","slug":"young-no-more-former-england-defender-to-retire-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425070\/","title":{"rendered":"Young no more \u2013 Former England defender to retire at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester United and England defender Ashley Young has announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Young has called time on a 23-year career, which also included spells with Watford, Aston Villa, Everton and Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old has spent this season with Championship promotion-chasers Ipswich, making 15 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on Instagram: &#8220;From Sefton Road to Vicarage Road to Villa Park to Wembley to Old Trafford to San Siro back to Villa Park to Goodison Park and finally to Portman Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been some journey that I only dreamt of as a boy! But with this dream there has to be an ending and Saturday might be the last game of my professional career \u2013 23 years and OUT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>England replied to his post with &#8220;congratulations on a fantastic career&#8221; while former Manchester United team-mate David De Gea wrote &#8220;what a career&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United and England defender Ashley Young has announced his retirement. Young has called time on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-425070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}