{"id":8258,"date":"2024-12-17T21:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/cardiff-skipper-belcher-signs-contract-extension\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T21:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:24:29","slug":"cardiff-skipper-belcher-signs-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/cardiff-skipper-belcher-signs-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff skipper Belcher signs contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Club captain Liam Belcher has extended his contract with Cardiff.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The homegrown hooker had a year remaining on his existing deal but has committed his future for the longer term at the Arms Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old has made 85 Cardiff appearances, either side of a one-year stint at Dragons, since his first-team debut 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy and grateful to extend my stay at Cardiff &#8211; the club I have come through since I was 15 years old,&#8221; said Belcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am enjoying my rugby and feel like we are building something here and heading in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to remain a part of that process and believe we can put the club in a stronger position and begin competing for silverware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The duration of his extension has not been disclosed by Cardiff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2p9ne732qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club captain Liam Belcher has extended his contract with Cardiff. The homegrown hooker had a year remaining on his existing deal but has committed his future for the longer term at the Arms Park. The 28-year-old has made 85 Cardiff appearances, either side of a one-year stint at Dragons, since his first-team debut 10 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258","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=8258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8260,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions\/8260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}