{"id":127240,"date":"2025-11-07T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127240\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:09:12","slug":"were-a-threat-to-any-team-ireland-u-17-star-ramon-martos-on-world-cup-challenge-and-family-link-to-pele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127240\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re a threat to any team\u2019 \u2013 Ireland U-17 star Ramon Martos on World Cup challenge and family link to Pel\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland U-17 Ramon Martos has a shot on goal during the Fifa U-17 World Cup Group J match against Panama at Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar. Photo by Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3278229.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ireland U-17 Ramon Martos has a shot on goal during the Fifa U-17 World Cup Group J match against Panama at Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar. Photo by Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the strangest aspects of the U-17 World Cup in Qatar is the fact that Spain are absent, having failed to qualify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Their strongest link to the tournament comes from an Irish-born, Spanish-based footballer who will help the side in their next test on Saturday, with a family link to one of the all-time greats from the west of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland U-17 Ramon Martos has a shot on goal during the Fifa U-17 World Cup Group J match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2049,1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-127240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}