{"id":413837,"date":"2026-03-31T21:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/413837\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:13:26","slug":"croke-park-to-host-manchester-united-and-leeds-in-august-pre-season-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/413837\/","title":{"rendered":"Croke Park to host Manchester United and Leeds in August pre-season friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manchester United manager Michael Carrick is on his way to Croke Park. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SOCCER Ma (17).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)\">Manchester United manager Michael Carrick is on his way to Croke Park. Photo: PA<\/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)\">Croke Park is set to host Premier League clubs for the first time when Manchester United and Leeds United play a pre-season friendly there on Wednesday, August 12.<\/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)\">It comes almost 17 years since the last soccer game played at GAA headquarters, a World Cup play-off that Ireland lost 1-0 to France in November 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Manchester United manager Michael Carrick is on his way to Croke Park. Photo: PA Croke Park is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[25558,18,19,17,8254,20,132],"class_list":["post-413837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-colm-keys","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leeds-united","tag-manchester-united","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116325857083020743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413837","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=413837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}