{"id":8654,"date":"2017-11-11T01:21:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2017-11-11T01:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:21:19","slug":"spanish-legend-xavi-announces-retirement-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/11\/spanish-legend-xavi-announces-retirement-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish legend Xavi announces retirement plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona legend Xavi revealed he was ready to retire from playing football at the end of the season, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/football\/international-football\/2017\/11\/09\/5a0497a6268e3e96248b466f.html\">as reported by Marca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had the luck of not having injuries and I think my career has gone down progressively,&#8221; Xavi said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also see that I am getting more tired and that it is harder for me to recover and I am sure that it is my last year as a football player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Spaniard stated his intention to pursue a coaching career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have the idea of issuing a licence and becoming a coach next year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old midfielder, who announced his retirement from international football in 2014, is currently playing for Qatar&#8217;s Al-Sadd.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi became the legend for both Spain\u00a0and Barcelona for his incredible career, which included eight\u00a0La Liga\u00a0titles, four\u00a0Champions League\u00a0wins, a World Cup and two European Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona legend Xavi revealed he was ready to retire from playing football at the end of the season, as reported by Marca. &#8220;I have had the luck of not having injuries and I think my career has gone down progressively,&#8221; Xavi said. &#8220;I also see that I am getting more tired and that it is harder for me to recover and I am sure that it is my last year as a football player.&#8221; On the other hand, the Spaniard stated his intention to pursue a coaching career. &#8220;I have the idea of issuing a licence and becoming a coach next year,&#8221; he added. The 37-year-old midfielder, who announced his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/11\/spanish-legend-xavi-announces-retirement-plan\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Spanish legend Xavi announces retirement plan&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[124,80,95,133],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qatar","tag-barcelona","tag-qatar","tag-slider","tag-xavi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}