{"id":560859,"date":"2026-04-02T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:03:07","slug":"ex-liverpool-goalkeeper-simon-mignolet-retiring-at-seasons-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560859\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet retiring at season&#8217;s end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUGGE, Belgium &#8212; Former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4084f797-3877-2af0-b70f-570d25a1a141\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a> goalkeeper <a data-player-guid=\"319c25b1-d4a0-cf51-b700-018ac06853ff\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/99829\/simon-mignolet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Mignolet<\/a> will retire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Mignolet&#8217;s current team, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8e6e95fc-4c18-1078-519c-b78f5fb1cf72\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=570\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Club Brugge<\/a>, said his final game will be on May 24 at home against KAA Gent on the final day of the Belgian league playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The end result is not completely in my control, but my commitment, willpower and determination will be there every day until my very last moment at Club Brugge,&#8221; the 38-year-old veteran said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are still 10 important games ahead of us with one clear goal, to become champions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Club Brugge goalkeeper Simon Mignolet announced he will retire at the end of the season.\u00a0Isosport\/MB Media\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Mignolet retired from international soccer in 2023. He played 35 times for Belgium, featuring at three World Cups and two European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Mignolet joined Brugge in 2019 after a six-year spell with Liverpool that included more than 200 appearances for the Reds and a Champions League title as a backup to <a data-player-guid=\"9d210b21-9daf-b76a-0d85-235471ad36a0\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/196876\/alisson-becker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alisson Becker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He also played for St. Truiden in Belgium and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"479e0b8f-fbeb-4a27-ce19-2c6ab31ac811\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reported Mignolet will start a new career in September in a management role at the Belgian Football Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUGGE, Belgium &#8212; Former Liverpool and Belgium goalkeeper Simon Mignolet will retire at the end of the season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-560859","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\/560859","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=560859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}