{"id":80456,"date":"2025-10-14T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80456\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:32:07","slug":"ireland-international-megan-campbell-announces-her-retirement-from-football-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80456\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland international Megan Campbell announces her retirement from football \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-wnt\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-wnt\">Republic of Ireland <\/a>defender Megan Campbell has announced her retirement from football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Campbell, who played centre back and left back, won 57 caps and included Manchester City and Liverpool among her former clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Campbell helped London City Lionesses secure promotion to the Women\u2019s Super League last season but has been without a club since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt\u2019s been a while coming but it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve struggled accepting for a long time now,\u201d said the 32-year-old from Drogheda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cFootball has been my life for over 25 years. Unfortunately, I knew that playing the sport I love and have given everything to would have to end some day. I just never wanted to believe that it would have come this soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In April Campbell broke the Guinness World Record for the longest throw-in for a female footballer after launching the ball 37.55 metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland defender Megan Campbell has announced her retirement from football. Campbell, who played centre back and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,18998],"class_list":["post-80456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-wnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80456","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=80456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}