The Republic of Ireland Under-17s will face Canada in the last 32 at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar on Friday.<\/p>\n
The governing body subsequently confirmed that the kick-off time on pitch four at the Aspire Zone in Doha for the 14 November encounter will be 3.15pm Irish time.<\/p>\n
The match will be broadcast live on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player ahead of live coverage of the Irish under-21s’ European qualifier against England in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
Colin O’Brien’s side had already booked their place in the knockout stages after back-to-back wins over Panama and Uzbekistan in Group J last week.<\/p>\n
They sealed top spot in their group on Tuesday after a 0-0 draw against Paraguay<\/a> but had to wait until all of the remaining fixtures from other groups were completed to find out who their knockout stage opponents would be.<\/p>\n With Austria beating New Zealand 4-1, the Boys in Green finished up as ninth-ranked group winners from the opening stage of the tournament which meant they would face the 12th ranked runners-up.<\/p>\n With Mali beating Saudi Arabia 2-0 later on Tuesday, it meant Canada slipped from 11th down to 12th among the group stage runners-up.<\/p>\n The Canadians finished second in a remarkbale Group K where all four teams ended up on four points.<\/p>\n France topped the group with a plus one goal difference and Chile were bottom on minus one, while Canada pipped third-placed Uganda on head-to-heads – courtesy of the North Americans’ 2-1 victory over the African side last Wednesday – with both having gone on to finish with a goal difference of zero.<\/p>\n The winner of Ireland’s last 32 match will go on to face either Switzerland or Egypt in the last 16.<\/p>\n Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n Watch Republic of Ireland v Portugal in World Cup qualifying on Thursday from 7pm on RT\u00c92 and the RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to live commentary on RT\u00c9 Radio 1<\/p>\n Watch England v Republic of Ireland in European Under-21 Championships qualifying on Friday from 7pm on RT\u00c92 and the RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland Under-17s will face Canada in the last 32 at the FIFA World Cup in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-287830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}