{"id":340976,"date":"2026-03-11T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340976\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:18:10","slug":"in-form-david-mcgoldrick-could-be-a-shock-call-up-for-czechia-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/340976\/","title":{"rendered":"In-form David McGoldrick could be a shock call-up for Czechia play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/David-S-133x133.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n            David Sneyd<\/p>\n<p>DAVID McGOLDRICK COULD be a shock call-up to the Republic of Ireland squad for the World Cup play-off with Czechia later this month.<\/p>\n<p>With Evan Ferguson ruled out after ankle surgery, Adam Idah is also highly unlikely to return from a hamstring injury in time to feature in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves just Troy Parrott and Johnny Kenny as the only available strikers from the last international window.<\/p>\n<p>The 42 understands that McGoldrick is now one of a number of attacking options under consideration as Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson plots a course to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Ireland boss has been in England this week as preparations for Czechia ramp up, and he previously met with Sammie Szmodics regarding his return to the fold.<\/p>\n<p>McGoldrick turned 38 last November and the forward has not played for Ireland since retiring from international football in 2020, having been named the FAI\u2019s men\u2019s player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>McGoldrick has been in fine form for Barnsley in League One, scoring 11 goals in his last 12 games, and while he remains a wildcard option at this stage, Hallgr\u00edmsson has needed to cover all bases with his planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Sneyd DAVID McGOLDRICK COULD be a shock call-up to the Republic of Ireland squad for the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[156137,1128,61,60,3405,112],"class_list":["post-340976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-didzy","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340976","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=340976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}