{"id":411461,"date":"2026-04-22T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411461\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:57:10","slug":"irish-footballs-wild-geese-aim-to-follow-troy-parrotts-path-to-success-and-silverware-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411461\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish football\u2019s \u2018Wild Geese\u2019 aim to follow Troy Parrott\u2019s path to success and silverware in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Troy Parrott cradles the Dutch Cup trophy, but Andrew Omobamidele (Strasbourg) and Robbie Keane (Ferencvaros) are both hoping to finish the season with silverware. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/trophyhunters.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)\">Troy Parrott cradles the Dutch Cup trophy, but Andrew Omobamidele (Strasbourg) and Robbie Keane (Ferencvaros) are both hoping to finish the season with silverware. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Troy Parrott has enjoyed a breakthrough season for club as well as country, but on Sunday he joined an exclusive club.<\/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)\">In helping AZ Alkmaar win the Dutch Cup, where he scored once and also came up with an assist in a 5-1 defeat of NEC Nijmegen, Parrott not only won a first senior medal of his club career but also made it onto the list of Irish players who have won a major trophy with a continental club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott cradles the Dutch Cup trophy, but Andrew Omobamidele (Strasbourg) and Robbie Keane (Ferencvaros) are both hoping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,47632,112,44452],"class_list":{"0":"post-411461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-robbie-keane","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-troy-parrott"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411461","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=411461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}