{"id":108215,"date":"2025-10-08T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/108215\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:49:10","slug":"ireland-v-germany-germany-didnt-want-to-swap-shirts-they-didnt-really-shake-our-hands-10-years-since-ireland-shocked-the-world-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/108215\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Germany: \u2018Germany didn\u2019t want to swap shirts. They didn\u2019t really shake our hands\u2019 \u2013\u00a010 years since\u00a0Ireland shocked the world champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shane Long shoots past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to score the match-winner 10 years ago. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e68e96e5-8b67-4b1a-a58d-a7145d2a560d.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)\">Shane Long shoots past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to score the match-winner 10 years ago. Photo: Sportsfile<\/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)\">Germany were in no mood for handshakes or shirt swapping, the post-match pleasantries in international football that typically follow the full-time whistle.<\/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)\">As the two big screens at the Aviva displayed the final scoreline, the Irish supporters could not quite believe their eyes. \u2018Ireland 1-0 Germany\u2019 it read. Some roared, some cried, others wondered if it was real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Long shoots past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer to score the match-winner 10 years ago. Photo: Sportsfile Germany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-108215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sean-oconnor","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}