{"id":1028813,"date":"2024-10-02T16:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipna.ir\/?p=1028813"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:36:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:06:37","slug":"polkinghorne-to-retire-from-matildas-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/?p=1028813","title":{"rendered":"Polkinghorne to retire from Matildas duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clare Polkinghorne has announced she will retire from international football in November of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old defender made her debut for the AFC giants all the way back in 2006 aged just 17, and would go on to play at the next year&#8217;s FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup\u2122 in China.<\/p>\n<p>She then travelled to each of the next four editions of the tournament, including last year&#8217;s showpiece, which was hosted across her homeland and neighbouring New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team has been a massive part of my life for 18-and-a-half years,&#8221; she told 10 News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely going to be difficult to say goodbye. Being a footballer has been the best job in the world, and I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to have that as a career for many, many years, and I&#8217;ve loved every part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In total, Polkinghorne has played a record 167 matches for the Matildas, scoring 16 times. She will now finish off her storied international career with a game against Brazil in her hometown of Brisbane on 28 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clare Polkinghorne has announced she will retire from international football in November of this year. The 35-year-old defender made her debut for the AFC giants all the way back in 2006 aged just 17, and would go on to play at the next year&#8217;s FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup\u2122 in China. She then travelled to each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1028816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20966],"tags":[9648,27192],"class_list":["post-1028813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-news","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/91varzeshi.ir\/portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}