{"id":17671,"date":"2014-12-03T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T02:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/liverpool-s-toure-announces-international\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T02:03:30","slug":"liverpool-s-toure-announces-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/liverpool-s-toure-announces-international\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVERPOOL&#8217;s Toure announces international retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-7444 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kolo-toure1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure has revealed he will retire from international duty after the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, reports BBC Sport.}<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Liverpool player made his debut against Rwanda in April 2000 and has gone on to win 109 caps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I plan to make this my final international assignment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to give my all to my country and myself because we have been in search of silverware for too long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If my coach [Herve Renard] gives me the opportunity to play at the upcoming Nations Cup, I&#8217;ll do my best and thereafter we&#8217;ll say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be the end between Kolo Toure and the Elephants.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure has revealed he will retire from international duty after the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, reports BBC Sport.} The 33-year-old Liverpool player made his debut against Rwanda in April 2000 and has gone on to win 109 caps. &#8220;I plan to make this my final international assignment,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000055280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-17671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000055280,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17671.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17671.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17671.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17671.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17671.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17671.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000055280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17671"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=17671"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=17671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}