{"id":469351,"date":"2026-05-27T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:12:08","slug":"kasper-schmeichel-retires-with-no-way-back-from-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469351\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasper Schmeichel retires with no way back from shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kasper Schmeichel has retired at the age of 39, with the Celtic and Denmark goalkeeper unable to recover sufficiently from a serious shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schmeichel, who was soon out of contract at Celtic, had been out of action since February and after consulting with surgeons has decided to end his playing career.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I believe that now is the right time,&#8221; the son of Manchester United great Peter told TV2 in his homeland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He suffered the injury during a Nations League quarter-final defeat to Portugal in March 2025 but played on with Denmark having used all of their substitutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schmeichel then aggravated the issue in Celtic&#8217;s Europa League defeat against Stuttgart 11 months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had vowed to do everything to prolong his career, including facing the prospect of up to a year of rehabilitation, but said &#8220;this is a decision that has been made for me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t realise how bad it was in March. It&#8217;s been a long process. When I landed on it in February, I could tell straight away that something was seriously wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have consulted with various surgeons and experts regarding my shoulder, and they have told me that I should not expect to return to playing top-flight football.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kasper Schmeichel has retired at the age of 39, with the Celtic and Denmark goalkeeper unable to recover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-469351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469351","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=469351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}