{"id":444302,"date":"2026-05-12T03:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444302\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:04:22","slug":"uncapped-ireland-player-forced-to-withdraw-from-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444302\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncapped Ireland player forced to withdraw from squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson recently named a host of uncapped Ireland stars in his squad for the upcoming international friendly against Grenada.<\/p>\n

However, one of the younger forwards has been forced to withdraw ahead of the camp due to his club commitments.<\/p>\n

Due to Benfica still looking to secure their qualification in next season\u2019s UEFA Youth League, Jaden Umeh<\/a> will not be released for international duty.<\/p>\n

\"\"Jaden Umeh will remain in Portugal. Pic: Gualter Fatia\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Cork teenager was included for the upcoming training camp and friendly in Murcia, though he will now remain in Portugal.<\/p>\n

Umeh has shown fantastic potential, previously representing Ireland at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup and making his under-21 debut in March.<\/p>\n

Fans were looking forward to seeing the 18-year-old in action for the Boys in Green, but his wait for a senior debut will have to be postponed.<\/p>\n

\"jadenFans were looking forward to seeing the 18-year-old in action. Pic: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

Hallgr\u00edmsson has opted against calling up a replacement for the friendly<\/a>, which is due to take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Ireland boss said: \u2018Benfica are still fighting in their Under-19s to be in the UEFA Youth League. The plan was for them to have secured that by now, but unfortunately, results this weekend didn\u2019t go their way, so Jaden still has one more game to play.<\/p>\n

\u2018We knew beforehand that this was a possibility, even if it was unlikely.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hallgr\u00edmsson has opted against calling up a replacement. Pic: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n

\u2018It 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.\u2019<\/p>\n

The rest of the Ireland squad<\/a> are currently continuing their preparations in Murcia.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the group will play a behind-closed-doors training match against Real Murcia \u2018B\u2019.<\/p>\n

Umeh may get the chance to join up with the senior squad in late May or early June, when a new group is named ahead of the pair of friendlies at home to Qatar and away to Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson recently named a host of uncapped Ireland stars in his squad for the upcoming international friendly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-444302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444302","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=444302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}