{"id":177193,"date":"2025-12-05T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177193\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:16:09","slug":"its-a-beatable-group-if-we-think-of-ourselves-in-it-hallgrimsson-pleased-with-irelands-possible-world-cup-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177193\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a beatable group if we think of ourselves in it\u2019 \u2013 Hallgrimsson pleased with Ireland\u2019s possible World Cup opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<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\">Boys in Green boss fully focused on March play-offs with one eye on North America<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Draw assistant Wayne Gretzky draws Denmark, North Macedonia, Czechia and Ireland during the Fifa World Cup 2026 draw at John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CUP-DRAW (760).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)\">Draw assistant Wayne Gretzky draws Denmark, North Macedonia, Czechia and Ireland during the Fifa World Cup 2026 draw at John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC<\/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)\">Heimir Hallgrimsson is confident that Ireland has what it takes to make it out of their potential 2026 World Cup group as this evening\u2019s draw pitted them against Mexico, South Africa and South Korea, should the Boys in Green qualify via the play-offs 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)\">The Icelander was in attendance at the Kennedy Center today as the draw for next summer\u2019s 48-team tournament was held in Washington DC, with Ireland to face co-hosts Mexico in Group A, as well as South Africa and South Korea (for the first time) should they make it through the play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Boys in Green boss fully focused on March play-offs with one eye on North America Draw assistant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,4876],"class_list":["post-177193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177193","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=177193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}