{"id":48026,"date":"2020-12-15T08:28:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=48026"},"modified":"2020-12-15T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:58:49","slug":"an-emotional-eddie-mcguire-has-announced-he-will-step-down-as-collingwood-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/an-emotional-eddie-mcguire-has-announced-he-will-step-down-as-collingwood-president\/","title":{"rendered":"An Emotional Eddie McGuire Has Announced He Will Step Down As Collingwood President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eddie McGuire has fought back tears while announcing to Collingwood members on Monday night that he will step down as club president at the end of the 2021 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking during an online forum, McGuire said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cBack in 1998 it was my time to stand up for our beloved Collingwood. Instead of calling on others to do something for our club, fate turned my way. I\u2019m proud that I answered.<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019ve given everything I have to this position and now it is time for me to set the platform for the club going forward.<\/p><p>\u201cI will stand down at the end of next year and I will spend rest of my time as president of this club setting up a new era of Collingwood.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collingwoodfc.com.au\/news\/843930\/mcguire-to-stand-down\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH EDDIE\u2019S ANNOUNCEMENT HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WATCH FIVEAA BREAKFAST FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM HERE \u2013 Summer Breakfast with Tom Rehn and Kate Collins, Tuesday 15 December:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F214684166884465%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie McGuire has fought back tears while announcing to Collingwood members on Monday night that he will step down as club president at the end of the 2021 season. 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Instead of calling on others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-48026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An Emotional Eddie McGuire Has Announced He Will Step Down As Collingwood President - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/an-emotional-eddie-mcguire-has-announced-he-will-step-down-as-collingwood-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Emotional Eddie McGuire Has Announced He Will Step Down As Collingwood President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eddie McGuire has fought back tears while announcing to Collingwood members on Monday night that he will step down as club president at the end of the 2021 season. 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