{"id":607069,"date":"2026-09-21T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607069\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:34:12","slug":"new-zealand-goalkeeper-jamie-searle-joins-english-national-league-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/607069\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand goalkeeper Jamie Searle joins English National League club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand international goalkeeper Jamie Searle has joined English National League club Eastleigh on a short-term contract.<\/p>\n<p>He arrives as a free agent after spending last season with National League South side Eastbourne Borough.<\/p>\n<p>Searle (25) made eight appearances in all competitions for Eastbourne after joining the club after leaving Forest Green Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>Whakatane-born Searle moved to England in 2019 and has subsequently been contracted to Aston Villa, Swansea City, Barnsley and Forest Green Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>He spent two seasons with Forest Green, mainly providing goalkeeping cover, before making his first-team debut in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He has one senior international cap, playing 90 minutes in New Zealand\u2019s FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup qualifier against New Caledonia in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Searle was also part of New Zealand\u2019s squad for the Tokyo Olympic Games, where the OlyWhites reached the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>This story was first published on September 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffootballnz.com\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More football stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand international goalkeeper Jamie Searle has joined English National League club Eastleigh on a short-term contract. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2965,298473,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-607069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-all-whites","tag-jamie-searle","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}