{"id":536222,"date":"2025-10-29T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/536222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:19:16","slug":"northern-ireland-makenzie-kirks-portsmouth-move-will-push-him-to-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/536222\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland: Makenzie Kirk&#8217;s Portsmouth move will push him to next level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Makenzie Kirk has made a fast start to life at Portsmouth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Makenzie_Kirk.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)\">Makenzie Kirk has made a fast start to life at Portsmouth<\/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)\">Former Northern Ireland striker Andy Kirk is confident his son Makenzie can take his club and international career to the next level.<\/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)\">The young finisher has found the target for Northern Ireland Under-21s and his new club Portsmouth as he follows in the footsteps of his dad who made over 500 senior appearances and scored 171 goals in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Makenzie Kirk has made a fast start to life at Portsmouth Former Northern Ireland striker Andy Kirk is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,1144,8538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-536222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-graham-luney","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115459547278272237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536222","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=536222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}