{"id":15946,"date":"2025-09-12T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:44:08","slug":"there-are-200-full-time-coaches-in-croatia-ireland-has-10-that-is-damming-wexford-fc-head-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15946\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There are 200 full-time coaches in Croatia. Ireland has 10, that is damming\u2019 \u2013 Wexford FC head of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">John Godkin, who saw Liam Brady make his international debut in 1974, says Ireland\u2019s defeat to Armenia was \u2018totally unacceptable\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Godkin, pictured when he was North End United manager, celebrating following the FAI New Balance Junior Cup Final match between Pike Rovers and North End United at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in May 2018. Photo by E\u00f3in Noonan\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/64ee3d50-12c5-4575-bd57-797b35b5f30b.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)\">John Godkin, pictured when he was North End United manager, celebrating following the FAI New Balance Junior Cup Final match between Pike Rovers and North End United at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin in May 2018. Photo by E\u00f3in Noonan\/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)\">Tuesday night was arguably the worst for Irish football in its modern-day history. A 2-1 defeat, away to Armenia, effectively ended Ireland\u2019s dream of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The next opportunity the team will have to represent their country at the pinnacle of world football will be in 2030. Nearly three decades since Mick McCarthy led Ireland to the World Cup in Japan and South Korea.<\/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)\">Wexford FC\u2019s Head of Football Operations, John Godkin, watched the game. \u201cI would never miss an Ireland game,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is a low ebb, probably one of the lowest in a long time. When we thought we turned a corner, that results brings us right back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Godkin, who saw Liam Brady make his international debut in 1974, says Ireland\u2019s defeat to Armenia was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3502,1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-15946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cillian-boggan","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946","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=15946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}