{"id":476420,"date":"2024-01-20T02:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476420"},"modified":"2024-01-20T02:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:06:14","slug":"henderson-apologizes-for-hurt-caused-by-his-saudi-arabian-transfer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/henderson-apologizes-for-hurt-caused-by-his-saudi-arabian-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson apologizes for hurt caused by his Saudi Arabian transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Henderson has claimed that his choice to leave Al Ettifaq and ink with Ajax was &#8220;a football decision&#8221; and admitted that he caused pain to the LGBTQIA+ with his transfer to the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan inked a 2-and-a-half-year deal with Ajax yesterday after he agreed to terminate his contract with Al Ettifaq, less than 6 months after inking for the Saudi Pro League team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without a doubt, it was a football decision. I admit, I&#8217;ve got to make a choice for myself about what&#8217;s best for my family and me in the future. &#8230; I think a lot of people would probably love to see me criticize the Saudi championship and everything that went along with that, but that certainly wasn&#8217;t the case, and that&#8217;s something that I will do neither now, neither in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henderson added that he respects the fans and the people in Saudi Arabia, but it just didn\u2019t work out for him there.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;If anyone was offended then that&#8217;s on me. I apologise for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Henderson has spoken about his decision to join Al-Ettifaq in July. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9O7jEGRBqa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9O7jEGRBqa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1748363688724041884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Henderson has claimed that his choice to leave Al Ettifaq and ink with Ajax was &#8220;a football decision&#8221; and admitted that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476421,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19357,17832],"news_category":[14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19358,20635],"acf":{"announce":"Jordan shared that his Ajax transfer was a football decision.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476424,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476420\/revisions\/476424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476420"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476420"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}