{"id":39007,"date":"2025-09-02T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:47:09","slug":"i-had-faith-in-god-and-he-brought-me-back-to-where-i-needed-to-be-bosun-lawal-on-his-return-from-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39007\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had faith in God and he brought me back to where I needed to be\u2019 \u2013 Bosun Lawal on his return from hard times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bosun Lawal during a Republic of Ireland media conference\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c1f0c587-a142-47ad-93d2-e7351f66a9e4.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)\">Bosun Lawal during a Republic of Ireland media conference<\/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)\">A late phone call from Ireland assistant manager John O\u2019Shea in the summer meant that one footballer had to change his holiday plans, cancelling a pre-arranged trip to Malta to instead fly somewhere less glamourous and with no beaches, little old Luxembourg.<\/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)\">And even though Bosun Lawal didn&#8217;t get on the field of play for that June friendly, instead leaving the ground as an unused sub in a dull 0-0 draw, the Dubliner says he\u2019s grateful for the support shown to him by O\u2019Shea and boss Heimir Hallgrimsson which helped him get through hard times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bosun Lawal during a Republic of Ireland media conference A late phone call from Ireland assistant manager John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,18142,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-39007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fai","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39007","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=39007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}