{"id":372409,"date":"2026-03-30T04:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372409\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:15:14","slug":"portsmouth-winger-millenic-alli-called-up-for-irelands-friendly-with-north-macedonia-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372409\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth winger Millenic Alli called up for Ireland\u2019s friendly with North Macedonia \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Portsmouth winger Millenic Alli has been handed his first senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> call-up ahead of Tuesday\u2019s friendly against North Macedonia after Sammie Szmodics was ruled out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 26-year-old Alli, on loan at Portsmouth from Luton, joined up with the squad on Sunday morning to take part in his first training session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Szmodics was knocked unconscious in Thursday night\u2019s World Cup qualifying playoff semi-final defeat to the Czech Republic, and has returned to Derby to continue his recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> has also said that Ipswich midfielder Jack Taylor is a doubt to face North Macedonia, having left camp to travel home for family reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portsmouth winger Millenic Alli has been handed his first senior Republic of Ireland call-up ahead of Tuesday\u2019s friendly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-372409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372409","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=372409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}