{"id":480163,"date":"2026-05-12T02:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480163\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:32:12","slug":"jaden-umeh-withdraws-from-ireland-squad-due-to-benfica-commitments-as-heimir-hallgrimsson-hopes-to-blood-youngsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480163\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaden Umeh withdraws from Ireland squad due to Benfica commitments as Heimir Hallgrimsson hopes to blood youngsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jaden Umeh has recently been training with Benfica's senior team. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3401372.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 recently been training with Benfica&#8217;s senior team. Photo: Ben McShane\/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)\">Jaden Umeh will miss out on a potential Ireland senior debut this weekend after withdrawing from Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s squad due to club commitments.<\/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 18-year-old will not link up with the Irish squad in Spain this week and instead will remain at Benfica as his club\u2019s U-19 side require a result in their final league match this weekend in order to clinch a place in next season\u2019s Uefa Youth League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaden Umeh has recently been training with Benfica&#8217;s senior team. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile Jaden Umeh will miss out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,17065,19,17,2723,132],"class_list":["post-480163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116559265962993923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480163","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=480163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}