{"id":30392,"date":"2026-06-03T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/what-happens-when-football-isnt-forever-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:16:21","slug":"what-happens-when-football-isnt-forever-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/what-happens-when-football-isnt-forever-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When Football Isn\u2019t Forever? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ErsnhIohHVU?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>For thousands of young players, football feels like a lifelong dream, until academies release them.<\/p>\n<p>Futures shift in an instant, leaving players to rebuild identity, find new paths, and cope with the loss of a game that once defined everything.<\/p>\n<p>This story reveals resilience, heartbreak, and hope beyond the pitch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog <\/p>\n<p>Watch more episodes of What Happens When on BBC iPlayer: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer<\/p>\n<p>#Football #Sport #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ErsnhIohHVU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For thousands of young players, football feels like a lifelong dream, until academies release them. Futures shift in an instant, leaving players to rebuild identity, find new paths, and cope with the loss of a game that once defined everything. This story reveals resilience, heartbreak, and hope beyond the pitch Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog Watch more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30394,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392\/revisions\/30394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}