{"id":906280,"date":"2026-09-26T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906280\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:08:09","slug":"israel-v-republic-of-ireland-republic-of-ireland-confirm-israel-game-will-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906280\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel v Republic of Ireland: Republic of Ireland confirm Israel game will go ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Republic of Ireland have confirmed Sunday&#8217;s Uefa Nations League B3 game against Israel in Debrecen, Hungary will go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There appeared to be real doubt on Saturday morning whether the fixture would take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pre-match news conference with manager Heimir Hallgrimsson and a player, scheduled for 09:15 BST, was postponed just 15 minutes before it was due to start, with reporters informed it would instead take place after the team&#8217;s training session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That training session, scheduled for 10:00 BST, also came and went with the team still in their hotel where reporters relocated in anticipation of a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The players were locked in a meeting, with unconfirmed reports that several players, including goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu, expressed their wish to withdraw from the game leading to questions whether the game would go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 13:00 BST, players began to filter out of the meeting room with it then confirmed the news conference would indeed go ahead, back at Nagyerdei Stadion at 14:30 with training to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over five hours after the initial news conference was due to begin, Football Association of Ireland [FAI] CEO David Courell &#8211; flanked by Hallgrimsson and FAI Director of Football &#8211; confirmed a players&#8217; vote passed by a significant majority to play the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland have confirmed Sunday&#8217;s Uefa Nations League B3 game against Israel in Debrecen, Hungary will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-906280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}