{"id":485338,"date":"2026-06-06T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485338\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:03:07","slug":"team-news-devoy-umeh-and-ndaba-set-to-start-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485338\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news: Devoy, Umeh and Ndaba set to start in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bohemians captain Dawson Devoy and Jaden Umeh are among six changes to the Republic of Ireland starting team for tonight’s friendly against World Cup co-hosts Canada in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Debutant Devoy, who was not involved in last Thursday’s friendly win over Qatar<\/a> at Aviva Stadium due to club commitments, joins Conor Coventry in central midfield.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old will be the first current League of Ireland player to take to the pitch for the Irish senior team since Jack Byrne in November 2020.<\/p>\n

Eighteen-year-old Benfica winger Umeh, who made his debut as a second-half substitute in that victory, will make his first start for the Irish senior team at the Saputo Stadium, in a support role alongside fellow wideman Chiedozie Ogbene behind centre forward Troy Parrott.<\/p>\n

Corrie Ndaba, who also made his first senior international appearance against Qatar, starts at left wing back, as part of a five-man rearguard alongside captain Nathan Collins, S\u00e9amus Coleman, Jake O’Brien and James Abankwah, the latter earning his fourth senior cap.<\/p>\n

Mark Travers starts in goal, with number one Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher among a host of players excused for duty following the Qatar game by manager Heimir Hallgrimsson.<\/p>\n

Kick off will be at 12.45am Irish time.<\/p>\n

Canada: Maxime Crepeau; Alistair Johnston, Luc de Fougerolles, Derek Cornelius, Richie Laryea; Tajon Buchanan, Stephen Eustaquio (capt), Ismael Kone, Liam Millar; Jonathan David, Cyle Larin.<\/p>\n

Republic of Ireland: Mark Travers; S\u00e9amus Coleman, Jake O’Brien, Nathan Collins (capt), James Abankwah, Corrie Ndaba; Conor Coventry, Dawson Devoy; Chiedozie Ogbene, Jaden Umeh; Troy Parrott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bohemians captain Dawson Devoy and Jaden Umeh are among six changes to the Republic of Ireland starting team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-485338","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\/485338","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=485338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}