{"id":618903,"date":"2026-09-17T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618903\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:48:09","slug":"liam-kitching-sheffield-united-defender-called-into-republic-of-ireland-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/618903\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Kitching: Sheffield United defender called into Republic of Ireland squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheffield United defender Liam Mitching has been called into the Republic of Ireland squad for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old is currently on loan with the Blades from Coventry City and has been included in Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson&#8217;s 26-man squad for the upcoming Nations League games against Kosovo, Hungary, Austria and Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kitching made 38 league appearances for Coventry last season as they won the Championship title but joined Sheffield United on a season-long loan on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cj647eyyyd0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transfer deadline day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Harrogate-born central defender started his career with Leeds United and has also played for his hometown club as well as Forest Green Rovers and Barnsley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United defender Liam Mitching has been called into the Republic of Ireland squad for the first time.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-618903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}