{"id":15096,"date":"2025-02-07T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=15096"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:55:26","slug":"marcelo-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/marcelo-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcelo Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Real Madrid left-back\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/football\/players\/91319-marcelo-playerprofile\">Marcelo<\/a>\u00a0announced his retirement from professional football on Thursday after a trophy-laden career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 36-year-old spent 16 years at Spanish giants Madrid, winning six La Liga titles and five Champions League trophies. &#8220;At 18, Real Madrid came knocking on my door and I arrived here,&#8221; Marcelo said in a video posted on social media. &#8220;Now, I can proudly say that I am a true &#8216;Madrileno&#8217;. What a journey. Real Madrid is a unique club.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcelo made 58 appearances for the Brazil national team, playing at the 2014 and 2018 World Cups and winning the 2013 Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was part of the teams that won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics and bronze in Beijing in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid left-back\u00a0Marcelo\u00a0announced his retirement from professional football on Thursday after a trophy-laden career. The 36-year-old spent 16 years at Spanish giants Madrid, winning six La Liga titles and five Champions League trophies. &#8220;At 18, Real Madrid came knocking on my door and I arrived here,&#8221; Marcelo said in a video posted on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15098,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15096\/revisions\/15098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15096"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=15096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}