{"id":406386,"date":"2026-04-19T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:10:13","slug":"hopefully-one-day-i-can-be-in-the-national-team-scoring-goals-owen-elding-on-passport-woes-why-he-quit-school-and-lofty-aims-with-hibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406386\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hopefully one day I can be in the national team scoring goals\u2019 \u2013 Owen Elding on passport woes, why he quit school and lofty aims with Hibs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Owen Elding: Owen Elding: \u2018To hopefully one day put on the Irish jersey would be a proud moment for me and my family.\u2019 Photo: Mark Scates\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3bdf5a6d-34d9-4dd8-b0d1-b44f84647df5.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)\">Owen Elding: Owen Elding: \u2018To hopefully one day put on the Irish jersey would be a proud moment for me and my family.\u2019 Photo: Mark Scates\/Getty Images<\/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)\">Owen Elding\u2019s dream of playing for Ireland has been hit by some obstacles along the way. But just when the Hibernian striker thought he was about to clear the final hurdle, he encountered more frustration.<\/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)\">The saga of the availability and eligibility of the English-born, Irish-raised and now Scottish-based striker is a long and winding one. And while the FAI are desperate to get Elding into the fold so he can wear green as his national colour as well as his club shirt, it\u2019s complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owen Elding: Owen Elding: \u2018To hopefully one day put on the Irish jersey would be a proud moment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,1113,4700,61,60,14644,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-406386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-fai","10":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sligo-rovers","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406386","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=406386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}