{"id":388923,"date":"2024-04-29T01:32:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388923"},"modified":"2024-04-29T02:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:04:16","slug":"keary-makes-800k-call-in-shock-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388923","title":{"rendered":"Keary makes $800k call in shock retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\ufeffhe NRL<\/a> career of Roosters<\/a> champion Luke Keary<\/a> will reportedly end prematurely.<\/p>\n

Media outlets including The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> report the veteran five-eighth will this week announce his retirement from rugby league.<\/p>\n

It's expected Keary will see out this current season, but forfeit the last year of his contract, which is worth about $800,000.<\/p>\n

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The 32-year-old signed a one-year extension recently, but has supposedly now been convinced by friends and family to call it a day\ufeff.<\/p>\n

Keary has suffered a number of concussions in recent years.<\/p>\n

\"Keary<\/p>\n

The news comes less than a week after Cronulla star Dale Finucane announced his premature retirement\ufeff due to repeated head knocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keary made his NRL debut in 2013 for South Sydney, and won the 2014 premiership alongside Adam Reynolds in the Rabbitohs line-up.<\/p>\n

He jumped ship to rival club the Roosters in 2017, and won grand finals in 2018 and 2019 with the Tricolours.<\/p>\n

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Despite being one of the NRL's best five-eighths for a long period of time, Keary's representative career never fully took off.<\/p>\n

He played one Origin game for New South Wales in 2020 but was never seen in the Blues jersey again.<\/p>\n

\"Luke<\/p>\n

He played two Tests for Australia in 2018, and then represented Ireland at the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n

\ufeffKeary will be one of a number of high-profile players to leave the Roosters at season's end.<\/p>\n

Kiwi prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves is retiring, while gun utility backs Joseph Manu and Joseph Suaalii are both jumping ship to play rugby.<\/p>\n

Question marks remain over the futures of veteran winger Daniel Tupou and backrower Angus Crichton.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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