{"id":385147,"date":"2024-04-15T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=385147"},"modified":"2024-04-16T01:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:03:11","slug":"magpies-flag-winner-medically-retired-suddenly-at-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=385147","title":{"rendered":"Magpies flag winner medically retired suddenly at 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

C\ufeffollingwood<\/a> premiership winner Nathan Murphy<\/a> has announced his retirement at the age of 24 due to concussion-related issues.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe defender had been with the Magpies for the past seven years and made over 50 AFL<\/a> appearances for the club.<\/p>\n

Murphy \ufeffexplained his long-term health and wellbeing was the reason for the decision.<\/p>\n

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"I feel it is the right time and the right decision for me to hang up my footy boots," he said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

"I love my football, but my priority is on my future and ensuring I live a full and healthy life."<\/p>\n

\"Nathan<\/p>\n

Murphy suffered a concussion in the first quarter of Collingwood's 2023 grand final over the Brisbane Lions after an accidental collision with \ufeffLincoln McCarthy.<\/p>\n

After being cleared to return by the AFL's concussion \ufeffpanel during pre-season, Murphy was involved in a scary incident at training, before suffering another head knock during a match simulation and ruling him out of the start of their campaign.<\/p>\n

Magpies coach Craig McRae revealed last month that Murphy had returned to contact training<\/a>, but he did not feature in the early rounds.<\/p>\n

Murphy paid credit to the club, family and teammates after the news of his retirement.<\/p>\n

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"I'd like to thank the club, coaches, teammates, staff and the Magpie Army for all their support throughout my playing career.<\/p>\n

"To my family and friends, I couldn't have gone through this journey without your continued love and support which I am so grateful for.<\/p>\n

"It is not lost on me how fortunate I am to have been able to experience premiership success with this group and club. I hope I did the jumper proud and thank the many people and supporters who helped me along the way.<\/p>\n

"I will forever cherish the memories and friends I've made at our great club."<\/p>\n

Murphy fronted media \ufeffon Tuesday morning at the club's training facility and was quizzed on whether or not Angus Brayshaw's retirement<\/a> factored into his decision, revealing the panel were the ones to medically retire him from the sport. <\/p>\n

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"I don't think that really had an effect on me \u2026 this has come off the back of how I've been feeling and no one else," he said.<\/p>\n

"I was guided by medical advice that this was the right decision for me. <\/p>\n

"I'm really grateful that it has come to this, because they are the professionals and I just have to trust their opinion. I saw the panel on Saturday and I was medically retired."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C\ufeffollingwood premiership winner Nathan Murphy has announced his retirement at the age of 24 due to concussion-related issues. \ufeffThe defender had been with the Magpies […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385152,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385147\/revisions\/385152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}