{"id":10037,"date":"2026-04-02T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/10037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:48:10","slug":"ex-liverpool-and-belgium-goalie-simon-mignolet-retiring-at-seasons-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/10037\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Liverpool and Belgium goalie Simon Mignolet retiring at season&#8217;s end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUGGE, Belgium (AP) \u2014 Former Liverpool and Belgium goalkeeper Simon Mignolet will retire at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Mignolet\u2019s current team, Club Brugge, said his final game will be on May 24 at home against KAA Gent on the final day of the Belgian league playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe end result is not completely in my control, but my commitment, willpower and determination will be there every day until my very last moment at Club Brugge,\u201d the 38-year-old veteran said. \u201cThere are still 10 important games ahead of us with one clear goal, to become champions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mignolet retired from international soccer in 2023. He played 35 times for Belgium, featuring at three World Cups and two European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Mignolet joined Brugge in 2019 after a six-year spell with Liverpool that included more than 200 appearances for the Reds and a Champions League title as a backup to Alisson Becker. He also played for St. Truiden in Belgium and Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reported Mignolet will start a new career in September in a management role at the Belgian Football Association.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUGGE, Belgium (AP) \u2014 Former Liverpool and Belgium goalkeeper Simon Mignolet will retire at the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[6696,7,4988,3925,4393,3934,1176,6695,6697],"class_list":["post-10037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-alisson-becker","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-national-soccer-team","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-simon-mignolet","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-retirements","tag-sunderland-afc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116335903119618797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}