Four-time winners Brazil await Ireland at the U17 World Cup in November after the group phase draw was made at Fifa\u2019s Zurich headquarters on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A 7-0 win over Slovakia in March confirmed Ireland\u2019s spot at a tournament that\u2019s now become an annual showpiece in Qatar. A hat-trick from Cork City\u2019s Cillian Murphy along with goals from Ryan Sheridan, Josh Harpur, Joey Wuna and Desmond Armstrong saw the young Boys in Green finish as one of the best runners-up in Uefa qualifiers to earn a spot at the tournament.<\/p>\n
Ireland, then under the management of Colin O\u2019Brien, reached the knockout stages of last year\u2019s inaugural 48-nation version of the event.<\/p>\n
Brazil are first up for the Irish on Saturday, November 21, followed by Costa Rica three days later. They complete the group against African opposition in Tanzania on Friday, November 27, aiming to finish in the top two. The eight best third-placed team across the 12 groups join the winner and runners-up in the last-32 stage.<\/p>\n
FAI director of football John Martin recently stated that the managerial vacancy, in succession to O\u2019Brien, would be filled. Mark Connors was in charge for the qualifiers but O\u2019Brien\u2019s former assistant, ex-Cork City manager John Cotter, is also in the frame.<\/p>\n
\n Group A: Qatar, Panama, Egypt, Greece\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group B: Korea Republic, CAF 1, New Caledonia, Ecuador\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group C: Argentina, Australia, CAF 2, Denmark Group D: France, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group E: Italy, Jamaica, C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, Uzbekistan\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group F: Senegal, Croatia, Cuba, Tajikistan\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group G: Mali, New Zealand, Belgium, Vietnam\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group H: Spain, China PR, Fiji, Morocco\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group I: Brazil, Republic of Ireland, Tanzania, Costa Rica\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group J: USA, Montenegro, Chile, Algeria\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group K: Mexico, Romania, Cameroon, Venezuela\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Group L: Japan, Colombia, Serbia, Honduras<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time winners Brazil await Ireland at the U17 World Cup in November after the group phase draw was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,2539,5782,43,5783],"class_list":["post-461121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-local-soccer","tag-news","tag-premiership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461121","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=461121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}