{"id":472406,"date":"2026-05-07T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:00:15","slug":"we-have-to-stop-the-game-high-profile-irish-football-figures-call-on-fai-to-boycott-israel-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/472406\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have to stop the game\u2019 \u2013 High-profile Irish football figures call on FAI to boycott Israel matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PFA Ireland chairperson Roberto Lopes issued a statement alongside the open letter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/adfab0a6-a5bc-45cc-b9ab-7ae30ae8669b.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)\">PFA Ireland chairperson Roberto Lopes issued a statement alongside the open letter<\/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)\">Several League of Ireland captains and other leading figures in Irish football have signed an open letter calling on the FAI to boycott the Nations League fixtures against Israel later this year.<\/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)\">The Irish Sport for Palestine group has today launched the \u2018Stop The Game\u2019 campaign, imploring the association to refuse to play the two games against Israel amid the current war in Gaza and humanitarian crisis that has followed, with the likes of Shamrock Rovers captain Roberto Lopes and his Bohemians\u2019 skipper Dawson Devoy throwing their weight behind the initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFA Ireland chairperson Roberto Lopes issued a statement alongside the open letter Several League of Ireland captains and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,18142,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-472406","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-sean-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116531536623117988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472406","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=472406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}