{"id":101521,"date":"2022-08-10T09:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/richard-keogh-returns-to-ipswich-19-years-after-leaving-club-s-academy"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:06:59","slug":"richard-keogh-returns-to-ipswich-19-years-after-leaving-club-s-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/richard-keogh-returns-to-ipswich-19-years-after-leaving-club-s-academy","title":{"rendered":"Richard Keogh returns to Ipswich 19 years after leaving club&#8217;s academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich have signed experienced defender Richard Keogh from Blackpool on a one-year deal.The 35-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee to become Town&#8217;s seventh summer arrival.Former Republic of Ireland international Keogh started his career in Ipswich&#8217;s academy before leaving for Stoke in 2003, and he told the club&#8217;s website: &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing to be back.&#8220;I started my football journey here and I have so many memories from my early days, so I can&#8217;t wait to get back out on the Portman Road pitch in front of the fans.&#8221;Boss Kieran McKenna said: &#8220;He will be valuable to us over what is a long season.&#8220;His experience at club and international level is great, and he can still contribute having played a good number of games with Blackpool last season.&#8221;The best videos delivered dailyWatch the stories that matter, right from your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich have signed experienced defender Richard Keogh from Blackpool on a one-year deal. The 35-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee to become Town&#8217;s seventh summer arrival. Former Republic of Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[138,58],"class_list":["post-101521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}