{"id":170427,"date":"2025-12-02T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170427\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:36:10","slug":"struggling-czechia-look-to-change-view-of-the-national-team-as-prague-set-to-be-confirmed-for-ireland-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170427\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Czechia look to \u2018change view of the national team\u2019 as Prague set to be confirmed for Ireland play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tomas Soucek, Vladimir Coufal and Lukas Provod of Czechia. (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages_2159406404.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)\">Tomas Soucek, Vladimir Coufal and Lukas Provod of Czechia. (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)<\/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)\">A bruised Czechia squad have appealed for unity between players and supporters, after one of the most difficult spells in modern history for the national team, as they prepare for a World Cup date at home to the Republic of Ireland in March.<\/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)\">And while the Czech FA will wait until after a board meeting on Tuesday to confirm a venue for their home semi-final against Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s side, the chairman of Slavia Prague \u2013 who is also a senior member of the Czech FA board \u2013 has given a strong indication that Slavia\u2019s 19,500-capacity home ground in the capital will get to host the game, despite some suggestions that the tie could be moved to one of the provincial cities there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomas Soucek, Vladimir Coufal and Lukas Provod of Czechia. (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images) A bruised Czechia squad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-170427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170427","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=170427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}