England\u2019s 2022 U19 Euro winning captain Harvey Vale (22) has switched allegiance to Ireland, according to Fifa.<\/p>\n
The Sussex-born attacker emerged through the Chelsea system, taking the well-trodden route of loan spells.<\/p>\n
He was exposed to first-team football at Hull City and Bristol Rovers after being restricted to just a couple of outings in Cup matches for his parent club.<\/p>\n
Queen\u2019s Park Rangers signed Vale on a permanent deal just over a year ago.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s made 22 appearances for the Championship club this season, lining out alongside Dundalk native Jimmy Dunne.<\/p>\n
Having held an Irish passport for over a year, he\u2019s now opted to throw his lot in with the FAI. Fifa confirmed the switch through their Change of Association Platform.<\/p>\n
Comfortable on either flank or through the middle, it seems a stretch for him to be handed a debut call-up on Thursday when Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson unveils his squad for the World Cup playoff semi-final in Czechia a week later.<\/p>\n
The Icelander is likely to maintain his system involving wing-backs for the series, which will include against either Denmark or North Macedonia on March 31, be it for a World Cup place or wooden spoon.<\/p>\n
Robbie Brady is in line for a recall despite suffering a small setback in his return from a serious calf injury while the sight of Chiedozie Ogbene ending his six-week gametime famine for Sheffield United in midweek is also encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England\u2019s 2022 U19 Euro winning captain Harvey Vale (22) has switched allegiance to Ireland, according to Fifa. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-345947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345947","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=345947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}