Jaden Umeh\u2019s \u2018natural goalscoring\u2019 ability and \u2018physicality\u2019 can bolster Ireland\u2019s depth along the Euro \u201928 journey, according to Heimir Hallgrimsson.<\/p>\n
The Ireland manager will work with the 18-year-old Corkman from tomorrow when the Benfica attacker is among 21 players reporting for a training camp in Spain.<\/p>\n
That exercise will conclude with a friendly against Grenada on May 16 before another squad closer to first-choice is selected from the other friendlies at home to Qatar on May 27 and away to fellow World Cup bound Canada in Montreal on June 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst and foremost, Jaden is just a natural goalscorer,\u201d Hallgrimsson said about the player also promoted to senior duty by his club manager Jos\u00e9 Mourinho.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has physicality as well, even though he is young, and that physicality that can be brought into the squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then, just individual his talent through his dribbling skills, especially going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be interesting for us to work with him over the next 11 days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Hallgrimsson is adamant there\u2019s no fear of losing Owen Eliding to England.<\/p>\n
The former Sligo Rovers striker has hit the ground running since joining Scottish top-flight outfit Hibernian, drawing admirers from clubs and countries.<\/p>\n
As the English-born forward is awaiting his Irish citizenship, he could technically declare for England but the Ireland boss is working on the basis of having the 20-year-old available for the Uefa Nations League campaign kicking off in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard of the report, so I just called him this morning and said I was going to a press conference,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked was he committed and he 100% is.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough Owen cannot play the games against Qatar and Canada, we might even bring him in, just to have him around the squad in May and June.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he’s committed to us so I’m not worried about that one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaden Umeh\u2019s \u2018natural goalscoring\u2019 ability and \u2018physicality\u2019 can bolster Ireland\u2019s depth along the Euro \u201928 journey, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-434116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434116","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=434116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}