{"id":333863,"date":"2026-03-07T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:56:09","slug":"evan-ferguson-out-of-irelands-world-cup-play-off-and-faces-uncertain-club-future-with-ankle-surgery-booked-for-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333863\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson out of Ireland\u2019s World Cup play-off and faces uncertain club future with ankle surgery booked for Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Evan Ferguson has been ruled out of Ireland's World Cup play-off against Czechia. Picture: Stephen McCarthy \/ SPORTSFILE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8cb534bd-546b-4450-80b2-071a8c2f97b4.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)\">Evan Ferguson has been ruled out of Ireland&#8217;s World Cup play-off against Czechia. Picture: Stephen McCarthy \/ 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)\">Evan Ferguson is out of Ireland\u2019s World Cup play-off after the decision was taken to undergo ankle surgery on Monday, a development which also casts doubt on his future at Roma.<\/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 21-year-old hasn\u2019t played since Roma\u2019s Europa League meeting with Stuttgart on January 22 and Heimir Hallgrimsson has indicated that he was preparing for a scenario where the frontman missed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson has been ruled out of Ireland&#8217;s World Cup play-off against Czechia. Picture: Stephen McCarthy \/ SPORTSFILE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,7523,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-333863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-evan-ferguson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333863","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=333863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}