{"id":94970,"date":"2025-10-21T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94970\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:15:09","slug":"ireland-u-17-boss-colin-obrien-backs-world-cup-squad-as-key-players-to-miss-fai-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94970\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland U-17 boss Colin O\u2019Brien backs World Cup squad as key players to miss FAI Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Noonan, right, and Victor Ozhianvuna of Shamrock Rovers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3049124.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Noonan, right, and Victor Ozhianvuna of Shamrock Rovers<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It&#8217;s definitely a case of country before club for Republic of Ireland U-17s manager Colin O&#8217;Brien as he makes no apologies for his squad selection for the World Cup finals in Qatar next month which will see a batch of players miss out on a potential FAI Cup medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">O&#8217;Brien, who has guided the U-17s to the European Championship finals on four occasions, gets his first taste of the world stage when Ireland take part in the finals in Qatar with qualification in itself already seen as an achievement given that European powers like Spain have missed out. Ireland play Panama, Uzbekistan and Paraguay in the group phase with a realistic chance of progress to the knockout stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Noonan, right, and Victor Ozhianvuna of Shamrock Rovers It&#8217;s definitely a case of country before club for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-94970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94970","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=94970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}