The England international, a lifelong supporter and former season ticket holder at St. James\u2019 Park, will wear the armband in Sunday\u2019s VisitMalta Weekender friendly against French side RC Strasbourg.<\/p>\n
Dan led the side out on five occasions last season, having been a key part of the first-team leadership group.<\/p>\n
The vastly experienced 34-year-old is the club\u2019s fourth-highest appearance maker within the current squad and has 11 England caps to his name, including three at this summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n
Dan said: \u201cIt\u2019s an absolute honour to be named captain of Newcastle United. It\u2019s always an immense privilege to represent this football club, especially when I have been trusted with the armband on previous occasions, but to lead the team on a permanent basis is going to be really special.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an incredible journey since I joined the club four-and-a-half years ago \u2013 we\u2019ve achieved some amazing things together and enjoyed some unforgettable moments. I believe there\u2019s still more to come and I\u2019m relishing the responsibility of pushing everybody every single day to make sure that is the case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Newcastle United head coach, Matthias Jaissle, added: \u201cDan is a natural leader and a perfect fit for the role of Newcastle United captain. He puts the interests of the team ahead of his own every time he steps onto the pitch and always gives maximum commitment in everything he does.<\/p>\n
\u201cOff the pitch, he leads by example in how he conducts himself. Not many people understand what this club means to the city better than Dan and that experience will be vital in helping guide our younger players through this period of change and adaptation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England international, a lifelong supporter and former season ticket holder at St. James\u2019 Park, will wear the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}