{"id":469485,"date":"2026-05-05T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:33:15","slug":"hopefully-one-or-two-or-three-will-step-up-heimir-hallgrimsson-opens-door-for-uncapped-prospects-like-jaden-umeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469485\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hopefully, one or two, or three, will step up\u2019 \u2013 Heimir Hallgrimsson opens door for uncapped prospects like Jaden Umeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Nine uncapped players for Ireland training camp and friendly against Grenada\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jaden Umeh has been called up for the Ireland senior squad. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3295827.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)\">Jaden Umeh has been called up for the Ireland senior squad. 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 boss Heimir Hallgrimsson says he\u2019s intrigued to see how uncapped attacking players like Jaden Umeh and Jack Moylan cope on the international stage after they received a first call-up at senior level for a training camp and friendly in Spain.<\/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 the Irish manager, who stood over his decision to omit League of Ireland players from this squad because he did not want to disrupt the domestic season, has also dismissed any fears of a possible bid by England to secure Owen Elding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine uncapped players for Ireland training camp and friendly against Grenada Jaden Umeh has been called up for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2722,9,10,18,18142,13,14,6,17065,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-469485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-fai","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116521993064911289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469485","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=469485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}