following March’s 7-0 win over Slovakia<\/a>, and performances over the last five tournaments saw them placed in Pot 2 for the draw.<\/p>\nThe 48-team tournament will be held from 19 November to 13 December.<\/p>\n
With teams unable to be placed in the same group as teams from the same confederations, by the time Ireland were drawn out they already knew that they had a glamour tie with Brazil to look forward to in Group I.<\/p>\n
Brazil have won the tournament four times previously, in 1997, Ronaldinho helping them to their first title, 1999, 2003 and 2019.<\/p>\n
They will be first up for Ireland on 21 November.<\/p>\n
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Costa Rica qualified after topping their CONCACAF group, as they prepare for their 12th appearance at the tournament. Ireland will play them on 24 November.<\/p>\n
Tanzania, meanwhile, are making their first-ever appearance at the U17 World Cup. A 3-0 win over Angola in May sealed their spot. They will play Ireland in the final group game on 26 November.<\/p>\n
All group fixtures will take place at the Aspire Zone in Doha.<\/p>\n
Holders Portugal failed to qualify. They lost all three qualifiers by a single goal.<\/p>\n
In last year’s event, also in Qatar, Colin O\u2019Brien – no longer with the FAI \u2013 made it to the Round of 16 where they lost out to Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Watch the Women’s Champions League final, Barcelona v Lyon, on Saturday from 4.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland U-17 side will play four-time champions Brazil, Costa Rica and Tanzania following the draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-460353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460353","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=460353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}