{"id":650216,"date":"2026-08-22T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650216\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:12:12","slug":"troy-parrott-watches-on-as-real-betis-win-la-liga-opener-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650216\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott watches on as Real Betis win La Liga opener \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <strong>La Liga:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Real Betis 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Real Sociedad 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>REAL BETIS KICKED off their Spanish La Liga campaign with a 1-0 victory over last season\u2019s Copa del Rey winners Real Sociedad on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The game came too soon for Irish international Troy Parrott, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the42.ie\/troy-parrott-to-land-in-spain-today-to-complete-real-betis-move-7136446-Aug2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially signed for the club<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But the 24-year-old Dubliner, who signed in a reported \u20ac20 million deal from AZ Alkmaar, was in the stands to watch his new teammates secure the win and make a promising start to the new campaign following last season\u2019s fifth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigo Riquelme\u2019s tidy volley from Cucho Hernandez\u2019s cross to the back post after 63 minutes secured all three points for Manuel Pellegrini\u2019s side from a tight and even game.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho starts his second reign as Real Madrid coach at Espanyol, after Los Blancos went back-to-back seasons without winning a major trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Hansi Flick\u2019s Spanish champions Barcelona visit Elche on Sunday in their first game of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">A new signing in the stands \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Troy Parrott is watching Real Betis in action tonight after signing for the club yesterday \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Jpq9CQzeD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/9Jpq9CQzeD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Premier Sports Ireland (@PremSportsIRL) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PremSportsIRL\/status\/2090898467648368874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additional reporting by Paul Fennessy<\/p>\n<p>Written by AFP and originally published on The 42 whose award-winning team produces original content that you won\u2019t find anywhere else: on GAA, League of Ireland, women\u2019s sport and boxing, as well as our game-changing rugby coverage, all with an Irish eye. Subscribe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the42.ie\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Liga: Real Betis 1 Real Sociedad 0 REAL BETIS KICKED off their Spanish La Liga campaign with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,274798,19,17,10174,24855,274799,4335,132,29833],"class_list":["post-650216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-good-start","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-la-liga","tag-real-betis","tag-real-sociedad","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-troy-parrott"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117137450419744980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650216","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=650216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}