{"id":1379,"date":"2019-02-28T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/2019\/02\/28\/cahill-ryan-mason-retirement-is-heart-breaking\/"},"modified":"2019-02-28T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:06:38","slug":"cahill-ryan-mason-retirement-is-heart-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"Cahill: Ryan Mason retirement is heart-breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was a clash of heads with the Chelsea defender that left Ryan Mason with a fractured skull and forced him to retire a year later <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n

Learning of Ryan Mason’s premature retirement on Tuesday due to a head injury suffered in January 2017 was “heart-breaking” for Chelsea defender Gary Cahill.<\/p>\n

Mason clashed heads with Cahill in a match at Stamford Bridge early last year and fractured his skull in the incident.<\/p>\n

The midfielder was initially expected to return to football, but recent scans showed the injury to be even more significant than originally feared.<\/p>\n

Article continues below<\/span> <\/div>\n
\n

Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n

Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over Man City monitoring Barcelona & Chelsea target Jovic <\/p><\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

As a result, Mason announced his retirement on Tuesday at the age of 26 to an outpouring of tributes and well wishes from across English football.<\/p>\n

Chelsea coach Antonio Conte said in his pre-match news conference ahead of Friday’s match with Mason’s former club Hull City that Cahill should not be blamed, but the centre-back cannot help feeling “devastated” for his former England team-mate.<\/p>\n

“I was devastated to hear that Ryan Mason has retired from professional football this week,” Cahill wrote in his notes for Friday’s match programme.<\/p>\n

“I can’t even imagine what he’s feeling and going through, having to retire at such a young age, and when I heard the news it was heart-breaking.<\/p>\n

“Ryan is a lovely guy. I’ve met him and trained alongside him with England, and it’s a horrible situation. Challenging for the ball in the air is such a common thing and you never expect consequences like this to come from it.<\/p>\n

“That is when football goes totally out of your thoughts and it becomes about making the best decision for you health.<\/p>\n

“I want to send my best wishes to Ryan and his family. The most important thing in life is your health and I am sure he will now go on to be successful in whatever he chooses to do next.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a clash of heads with the Chelsea defender that left Ryan Mason with a fractured skull and forced him to retire a year later Learning of Ryan Mason’s premature retirement on Tuesday due to a head injury suffered in January 2017 was “heart-breaking” for Chelsea defender Gary Cahill. Mason clashed heads with Cahill … <\/p>\n

Read more “Cahill: Ryan Mason retirement is heart-breaking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fa-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}