{"id":675924,"date":"2026-11-05T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675924\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:14:09","slug":"heimir-hallgrimsson-invites-seamus-coleman-to-take-up-hybrid-role-with-ireland-as-he-searches-for-new-club-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675924\/","title":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson invites S\u00e9amus Coleman to take up \u2018hybrid\u2019 role with Ireland as he searches for new club \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> has invited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/seamus-coleman\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/seamus-coleman\">S\u00e9amus Coleman<\/a> to take up a \u201chybrid\u201d role with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> squad when it gathers next week to prepare for the final round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nations-league\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nations-league\">Nations League<\/a> games against Austria and Kosovo. Coleman has been without a club since he left Everton at the end of last season, but Hallgr\u00edmsson is eager for the 38-year-old to find a new club and, for now, take up \u201ca leadership role\u201d with the squad as work as support to the coaches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHopefully that will get him to start playing again and that is our aim, to try to push him to continue playing,\u201d said Hallgr\u00edmsson. \u201cHe has expressed that he wants to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After being ruled out of Ireland\u2019s opening Nations League games through injury, captain Nathan Collins is back in the squad named by Hallgr\u00edmsson on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Attacking midfielder Harvey Vale also returns having successfully completed his own rehabilitation from injury, while goalkeeper Mark Travers takes the place of Gavin Bazunu who has missed Bolton Wanderers\u2019 last two matches with a thigh issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Southampton\u2019s Finn Azaz is in the squad too, ending speculation about his willingness to carry on playing for Ireland after events surrounding the games against Israel in September and October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There\u2019s no return yet for midfielder Josh Cullen who has played just 45 minutes for Burnley this season after a 10-month absence following knee surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland play Austria in Linz on Saturday week before wrapping up their campaign against Kosovo in Dublin the following Tuesday. They are currently third in their group, three points adrift of leaders Austria and behind Kosovo on goal difference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Republic of Ireland squad<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Goalkeepers: Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher (Liverpool), Max O\u2019Leary (West Bromwich Albion), Mark Travers (Everton).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Defenders: Nathan Collins (Brentford), Dara O\u2019Shea (Ipswich Town), John Egan (Hull City), Liam Kitching (Sheffield United), Jimmy Dunne (QPR), Jake O\u2019Brien (Everton), James Abankwah (Watford), Ryan Manning (Southampton), Liam Scales (Celtic).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Midfielders: Jayson Molumby (West Bromwich Albion), Jason Knight (Bristol City), Conor Coventry (Charlton Athletic), Bosun Lawal (Stoke City), Harvey Vale (QPR), Finn Azaz (Southampton).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Forwards: Troy Parrott (Real Betis), Adam Idah (Swansea City), Tom Cannon (Sheffield United), Jack Moylan (Cardiff City), Chiedozie Ogbene (Lincoln City), Rocco Vata (Watford).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson has invited S\u00e9amus Coleman to take up a \u201chybrid\u201d role with the Republic of Ireland squad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-675924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675924","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=675924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}