{"id":339985,"date":"2026-03-11T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339985\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:48:09","slug":"theres-a-lot-more-swearing-but-it-makes-it-feel-more-competitive-sligo-rovers-americans-adjusting-to-life-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339985\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s a lot more swearing, but it makes it feel more competitive\u2019 \u2013 Sligo Rovers\u2019 Americans adjusting to life in Ireland"},"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\">Six players have arrived at Rovers from the United States for the upcoming season\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sydney Stephens.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/80a07c5f-46b1-4556-86cb-642f79af51f6.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)\">Sydney Stephens.<\/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)\">With more and more American footballers swapping the United States for the League of Ireland, Sligo Rovers has become a home for six players who are hoping this route proves as fruitful for them as it did for the likes of Kelly Brady and Dana Scheriff.<\/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)\">Sydney Stephens, Cara Jordan, Manu Baptista Filipe, Natalie Yoo, Ella Karolak and Sabrina Hillyer have all joined the Bit O\u2019Red for the upcoming season, moving from the United States to follow their dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six players have arrived at Rovers from the United States for the upcoming season Sydney Stephens. With more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,111485,43,14644],"class_list":{"0":"post-339985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-jessica-farry","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sligo-rovers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339985","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=339985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}