{"id":621950,"date":"2026-09-20T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/621950\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:04:08","slug":"brighton-veteran-pascal-gross-announces-germany-retirement-after-inspiring-stunning-3-0-demolition-of-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/621950\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton veteran Pascal Gross announces Germany retirement after inspiring stunning 3-0 demolition of Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gross&#8217;s journey with the German national team was a relatively short but impactful one, characterized by his professional approach and technical reliability. He made his debut during a turbulent period for the DFB, first appearing under Hansi Flick in a heavy 4-1 defeat against Japan in September 2023. His final contribution in a Germany shirt came during the World Cup group stages, where he featured as a second-half substitute in the 2-1 loss to Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Although his international career ended with that disappointing result, Gross remains positive about the direction of the national team. &#8220;I have still fun playing football, here in the club, but in Germany is a change, and that is also good. I will keep my fingers crossed for them,&#8221; Gross said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gross&#8217;s journey with the German national team was a relatively short but impactful one, characterized by his professional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57731,170,85,46,281100,2619,105,252612],"class_list":["post-621950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brighton-hove-albion","tag-germany","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-p-gross","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uefa-nations-league-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}