If things had transpired differently, Bale might have been a regular at the Cardiff City Stadium this season as he was part of a consortium who tried to buy the Bluebirds.<\/p>\n
That interest was dismissed by Cardiff’s owners and Bale insists he is in no rush to commit to a future in or out of football as he enjoys time as a father, as well as doing TV punditry, but says he would “love to explore” club ownership in the future.<\/p>\n
“I knew football wasn’t going to last forever anyway. I enjoy being with family, keeping in football a little bit by doing some stuff on the TV. My kids keep me very busy,” he added.<\/p>\n
“It’s great to now have that time to spend with them and not be away every weekend and missing a lot of them growing up, just being able to go out and be a dad finally. At the moment I’m quite content where I am.”<\/p>\n
Bale is not ruling out involvement in football in the future.<\/p>\n
“Like I said, if something was to happen with a football club, I would definitely be interested and would love to explore it,” he added.<\/p>\n
“I’m still pretty relatively new into retirement so I’m still enjoying that phase of relaxing a bit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If things had transpired differently, Bale might have been a regular at the Cardiff City Stadium this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-171438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}