{"id":223667,"date":"2025-06-29T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223667\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:43:18","slug":"northern-ireland-football-irish-fas-national-training-centre-shortfall-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223667\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Irish FA&#8217;s National Training Centre shortfall revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revealed\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plans for the Irish FA's National Training Centre at Galgorm were revealed earlier this year\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pe_00973221.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Plans for the Irish FA&#8217;s National Training Centre at Galgorm were revealed earlier this year<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Two weeks after trumpeting a \u00a316m investment into the new National Training Centre at Galgorm, the IFA have admitted they do not have the money to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Instead, the Association will seek funding from Stormont, FIFA and UEFA to help bring the controversial project to fruition. The IFA have over \u00a38m in reserves but this is only half the expected cost of the new NTC near Ballymena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revealed\u00a0|\u00a0 Plans for the Irish FA&#8217;s National Training Centre at Galgorm were revealed earlier this year Two weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8543,1144,8538,8542,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-223667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-national-stadium-at-windsor-park","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-south-belfast-sport","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114766008167707214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}