{"id":536903,"date":"2025-10-30T05:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/536903\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:12:16","slug":"kenny-shiels-former-northern-ireland-womens-boss-on-being-frozen-out-of-football-why-hes-angry-at-the-irish-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/536903\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Shiels: Former Northern Ireland Women\u2019s boss on being frozen out of football why he&#8217;s angry at the Irish FA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nEx-NI Women\u2019s coach discusses his legacy with the NI Women\u2019s team and how he\u2019d be open to a return to the game\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kenny Shiels during his time as Northern Ireland Women's manager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kenny_Shiels_2.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)\">Kenny Shiels during his time as Northern Ireland Women&#8217;s manager<\/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)\">Kenny Shiels has opened up on his belief that the Irish FA and Northern Ireland Women\u2019s side has not built on the legacy of their Euro 2022 heroics.<\/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)\">Shiels, who guided the international team to a first ever major tournament, has also shared his lingering anger over being frozen out of coaching opportunities and insisted he still has the appetite to stay in the game after leaving Moyola Park earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Ex-NI Women\u2019s coach discusses his legacy with the NI Women\u2019s team and how he\u2019d be open to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8544,1144,8538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-536903","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\/115461406934539518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536903","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=536903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}