{"id":73726,"date":"2025-08-20T12:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73726"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:55:48","slug":"former-super-eagles-striker-brown-ideye-retires-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/former-super-eagles-striker-brown-ideye-retires-from-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Super Eagles Striker Brown Ideye Retires from Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Super Eagles forward Brown Ideye has announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 36.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-international, who last played for nine-time Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) champions Enyimba, shared the news on social media, describing the decision as one filled with \u201cmixed emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter much thought and consideration, I\u2019ve decided to retire from professional football,\u201d Ideye wrote. \u201cI thank God for the talent and long career I enjoyed, my family and friends for their unwavering support, and everyone who stood by me through the highs and lows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his emotional farewell, the striker expressed gratitude to agents, coaches, teammates, journalists, and fans, noting that football gave him \u201cincredible joy, sad days, opportunities to travel the world, lifelong friendships, and unforgettable memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ideye made his breakthrough with Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada, before earning a place in the senior national team, where he scored six goals in 28 appearances for the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his career, he featured for clubs across England, Turkey, Greece, Spain, and France, building a reputation as a hardworking forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Nigeria, for the opportunity to wear the national colours and be among the Super Eagles,\u201d he said, adding that while his professional career has ended, football \u201cwill always remain a part of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Former Super Eagles forward Brown Ideye has announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 36. The ex-international, who last played for nine-time Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) champions Enyimba, shared the news on social media, describing the decision as one filled with \u201cmixed emotions.\u201d \u201cAfter much thought and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73728,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73726\/revisions\/73728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}