{"id":170993,"date":"2025-11-09T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/170993\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:43:11","slug":"michael-noonan-the-hero-as-ireland-u-17s-book-knockout-stage-place-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/170993\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Noonan the hero as Ireland U-17s book knockout stage place at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland players, from left, Michael Noonan, Ramon Martos and Rory Finneran celebrate after the Under-17 World Cup Group J win over Uzbekistan at Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sports3281361.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)\">Ireland players, from left, Michael Noonan, Ramon Martos and Rory Finneran celebrate after the Under-17 World Cup Group J win over Uzbekistan at Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/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)\">Ireland have progressed to the knockout stages of the U-17 World Cup for the first time in their history after coming from behind to defeat Asian champions Uzbekistan to make it two wins from two in their group.<\/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)\">Rovers\u2019 rising star Michael Noonan was the hero with a bullet header 15 minutes from time, after Grady McDonnell\u2019s first-half goal cancelled out Abubakir Shukurullaev\u2019s 20th-minute opener in Qatar, with Lorient\u2019s Ade Solanke assisting both Irish goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland players, from left, Michael Noonan, Ramon Martos and Rory Finneran celebrate after the Under-17 World Cup Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-170993","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115518387466910177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170993","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=170993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}