{"id":17391,"date":"2010-05-18T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17391"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-to-retire-besians-number-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/05\/18\/swans-to-retire-besians-number-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans To Retire Besian&#8217;s Number 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 year old striker passed away on Saturday leaving everyone at the club shocked and stunned by the news that reached them at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And as a mark of tribute, the Swans have stated that they will retire Besian&#39;s number 40 shirt as a mark of respect to him.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the club&#39;s official website read &quot;<strong>Swansea City will retire Besian Idrizaj&#39;s No 40 shirt in honour of the striker who sadly passed away on the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The news comes on the day the 22-year-old will be laid to rest &quot;where his roots were&quot; in Kosovo, near the birthplace of his Albanian father.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Besian passed away in his sleep while at home with his family in Linz, Austria, on the weekend with a suspected heart-attack.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 year old striker passed away on Saturday leaving everyone at the club shocked and stunned by the news that reached them at the weekend. And as a mark of tribute, the Swans have stated that they will retire Besian&#39;s number 40 shirt as a mark of respect to him. A statement on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}