Republic of Ireland international Mason Melia made his first senior appearance for Tottenham in their pre-season friendly against Sydney FC in Australia.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old forward moved to Spurs from St Patrick’s Athletic in January having signed a multi-year contract in 2025.<\/p>\n
Melia, who won two caps for the Boys in Green earlier this summer, against Qatar and Canada<\/a>, came on as a 65th-minute substitute for Conor Gallagher in the team’s win at the Allianz Stadium in Sydney.<\/p>\n The game ended 1-1 after 90 minutes with Mathys Tel scoring Spurs’ goal from a free kick; the visitors won 4-2 on penalties but Melia didn’t feature in the shootout.<\/p>\n The Wicklow native scored 21 goals in 76 games for the Saints between 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n He scored a goal on his debut for Spurs’ Under-21 team in April.<\/p>\n \n Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland international Mason Melia made his first senior appearance for Tottenham in their pre-season friendly against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-573767","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\/573767","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=573767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}