{"id":363933,"date":"2026-03-25T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:27:11","slug":"five-czech-players-to-watch-out-for-from-the-fit-again-star-striker-to-a-veteran-out-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363933\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Czech players to watch out for \u2013 from the fit-again star striker to a veteran out of retirement"},"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\">Miroslav Koubek may not have a vintage team at his disposal, but his squad does possess a number of dangerous players\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vladimir Coufal, one of Czechia's most experienced internationals \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PL46265601Czech Republic v.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)\">Vladimir Coufal, one of Czechia&#8217;s most experienced internationals <\/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)\">Much of the talk in the weeks building up to Ireland\u2019s crunch World Cup play-off in Prague focused on the form and fitness of Heimir Hallgrimsson&#8217;s squad. <\/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)\">But who are the key players that home fans will be pinning all their hopes on at the Fortuna Arena? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miroslav Koubek may not have a vintage team at his disposal, but his squad does possess a number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4876,112,102024],"class_list":["post-363933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363933","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=363933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}