{"id":281484,"date":"2025-11-14T00:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281484\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:46:11","slug":"alfie-jones-ineligible-to-play-for-canada-in-friendly-against-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281484\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie Jones ineligible to play for Canada in friendly against Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alfie Jones will not make his debut for Canada in Thursday\u2019s friendly against Ecuador as he remains ineligible after not completing his citizenship process ahead of the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old central defender was born in Bristol, England and will be eligible to play for Canada through a grandparent on his mother\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was named as part of Jesse Marsch\u2019s 24 player roster that will face both Ecuador and Venezuela during FIFA\u2019s November international window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones has appeared in 14 matches this season for Middlesbrough in the EFL Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has also played for Hull City in the Championship, Gillingham in League One and St Mirren in the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfie Jones will not make his debut for Canada in Thursday\u2019s friendly against Ecuador as he remains ineligible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-281484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}