{"id":67653,"date":"2018-11-17T23:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/17\/wayne-rooney-some-ex-players-cannot-come-to-terms-with-this-england-team\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T23:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T22:30:43","slug":"wayne-rooney-some-ex-players-cannot-come-to-terms-with-this-england-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=67653","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney: some ex-players cannot come to terms with this England team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Rooney says some ex-teammates bitter about successes\u2022 \u2018That is wrong. I\u2019m not like that. I\u2019m a fan now\u2019Wayne Rooney believes some of his former international teammates are struggling to embrace England\u2019s success under Gareth Southgate. The former captain made sure not to cause any embarrassment by revealing who he was talking about, though the DC United forward stressed that he has not been weighed down by any bitterness since his retirement from international football last year.\u201cI know there are some ex-players who I\u2019ve spoken to who can\u2019t come to terms with England doing well,\u201d Rooney said. \u201cThat is wrong. I\u2019m not like that. I\u2019m a fan now. I want England to do well. I am proud to have played for England so many times and I always have been. I\u2019ve had my time. I am happy with what I\u2019ve contributed to the national team and I look forward now to the next few years and watching this team progress.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/nov\/17\/ex-players-england-team-wayne-rooney\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Rooney: some ex-players cannot come to terms with this England team<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Rooney says some ex-teammates bitter about successes\u2022 \u2018That is wrong. I\u2019m not like that. I\u2019m a fan now\u2019Wayne Rooney believes some of his former international teammates are struggling to embrace England\u2019s success under Gareth Southgate. The former captain made sure not to cause any embarrassment by revealing who he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}