{"id":286868,"date":"2026-02-08T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286868\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:33:09","slug":"ex-manchester-city-star-stephen-ireland-acted-as-an-unregistered-football-agent-says-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286868\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Manchester City star Stephen Ireland acted as an unregistered football agent, says FA"},"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\">Young Irish players claimed to have been represented by the former international\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770532389_383_video.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)\">Former professional footballer Stephen Ireland acted as an unregistered football agent, says FA            <\/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 business partner of former professional footballer Stephen Ireland has been suspended by the Football Association (FA) in England for using Ireland as an agent when he was not qualified.<\/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 move by the FA followed a Sunday Independent investigation in 2024 that highlighted how young Irish footballers were claiming to be represented by former professional players who were not registered agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Irish players claimed to have been represented by the former international Former professional footballer Stephen Ireland acted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15134,12889,1113,2956,61,60,8579,7113,43,137712],"class_list":["post-286868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aston-villa","tag-burnley-fc","tag-fai","tag-fifa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-city","tag-mark-tighe","tag-news","tag-stoke-city-football-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286868","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=286868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}