{"id":443397,"date":"2026-05-11T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443397\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:03:08","slug":"teenager-jaden-umeh-withdrawn-from-ireland-squad-for-grenada-friendly-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443397\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager Jaden Umeh withdrawn from Ireland squad for Grenada friendly \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Striker Jaden Umeh has been withdrawn from the <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> squad for Saturday\u2019s friendly against Grenada to play his part in Benfica\u2019s bid for Uefa Youth League qualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The 18-year-old from Cork had been called up to the senior set-up for the first time for the ongoing training camp in Murcia, but will now remain with his club\u2019s under-19s after results in the Portuguese league at the weekend left them still to secure their place in next season\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The highly rated teenager scored twice for Benfica under-19s in their 6-2 victory over UD Leiria on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland head coach Heim\u00edr Hallgrimsson said: \u201cWe knew beforehand that this was a possibility, even if it was unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">\u201cIt is unlucky for him that the results went that way, as we were looking forward to working with him, but we understand the club\u2019s position and will have to wait for a future window to bring him into the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A squad comprised largely of players from Championship and League One clubs not involved in the playoffs will play a behind-closed-doors friendly against Real Murcia B on Tuesday before the clash with Grenada at the Estadio Nueva Condomina on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Striker Jaden Umeh has been withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad for Saturday\u2019s friendly against Grenada to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-443397","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\/443397","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=443397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}