{"id":24755,"date":"2025-01-07T14:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/leon-brown-wales-and-dragons-prop-retires-aged-28\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:21:51","slug":"leon-brown-wales-and-dragons-prop-retires-aged-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/leon-brown-wales-and-dragons-prop-retires-aged-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Brown: Wales and Dragons prop retires aged 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown made 74 appearances for Dragons and scored five tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to spend my entire playing career with the Dragons, something I&#8217;ve truly cherished and am incredibly proud of,&#8221; said Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to send a massive shout out to my team-mates &#8211; both past and present &#8211; and to the loyal Dragons fans for your continued, unwavering support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone&#8217;s help and support over the years has not gone unnoticed by my family or I, and we will be forever grateful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Finally there is a huge thank you to the Dragons for sticking by me and supporting me while I tried my best to get this neck to play ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dragons interim head coach Filo Tiatia said: &#8220;We&#8217;re all disappointed Leon is retiring, but fully understand the decision he has now taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have enjoyed working with Leon.  He&#8217;s left no stone unturned, with his dedication and professionalism, and developed as a leader in my time with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c3vrgez5g2qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown made 74 appearances for Dragons and scored five tries. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to spend my entire playing career with the Dragons, something I&#8217;ve truly cherished and am incredibly proud of,&#8221; said Brown. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to send a massive shout out to my team-mates &#8211; both past and present &#8211; and to the loyal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24757,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24755\/revisions\/24757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}