{"id":71681,"date":"2021-05-15T23:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T23:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71681"},"modified":"2021-05-16T04:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:06:57","slug":"former-all-blacks-captain-read-retires-from-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71681","title":{"rendered":"Former All Blacks captain Read retires from rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former All Blacks captain and two-time World Cup winner <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/kieran-read\" title=\"Kieran Read\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kieran Read<\/a> has announced his retirement from professional rugby aged 35.<\/p>\n<p>Read made the announcement Saturday, before his Toyota Verblitz team was beaten by the Panasonic Wild Knights in the semifinals of Japan&#x27;s Top League.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, Read said: &quot;I&#x27;m looking forward to returning to New Zealand and spending time with my family.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldRugby\/status\/1393509654123188226?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldRugby\/status\/1393509654123188226?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read is the third most-capped All Black with 127 test appearances in the back row, including 52 as captain.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of New Zealand teams which won the 2011 and 2015 World Cups and was voted World Rugby Player of the Year in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He also won four Super Rugby titles with the Christchurch-based Crusaders.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"13ea47c1-9b69-4448-9d76-f4d8f1cdb3ed\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/13ea47c1-9b69-4448-9d76-f4d8f1cdb3ed\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former All Blacks captain and two-time World Cup winner Kieran Read has announced his retirement from professional rugby aged 35. Read made the announcement Saturday, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=71681\" title=\"Former All Blacks captain Read retires from rugby\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/71681"}],"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=71681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71683,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71681\/revisions\/71683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}