{"id":460673,"date":"2026-05-21T21:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460673\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:15:14","slug":"ireland-to-face-four-time-champions-brazil-at-u17-world-cup-%c2%b7-the-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460673\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to face four-time champions Brazil at U17 World Cup \u00b7 The 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE REPUBLIC OF Ireland Men\u2019s U17 team have been drawn against Brazil, Tanzania and Costa Rica in the World Cup this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mark Connors\u2019\u00a0side learned their Group I opponents following a draw in Zurich this evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ireland will open the tournament in Doha\u00a0against four-time champions Brazil on Saturday, 21 November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They then face Costa Rica on Tuesday 24 November before rounding out the group stage against Tanzania on Friday 27 November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Young Boys In Green qualified after a 7-0 win over Slovakia in March and will feature at a second consecutive World Cup: Colin O\u2019Brien\u2019s side reached the last 16 last November, where they bowed out at the hands of Switzerland. Holders Portugal failed to qualify for the 2026 edition.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s 2026 Fifa Under-17 World Cup fixtures<\/p>\n<p>Group I<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 21 November: Brazil v Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, 24 November: Costa Rica v Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Friday, 27 November: Ireland v Tanzania<\/p>\n<p>All group games to take place at the Aspire Zone, Doha, with kick-off times to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE REPUBLIC OF Ireland Men\u2019s U17 team have been drawn against Brazil, Tanzania and Costa Rica in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1128,61,60,15424,43,3405],"class_list":["post-460673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-luck-of-the-draw","tag-news","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460673","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=460673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}