{"id":561975,"date":"2025-11-10T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561975\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:04:31","slug":"northern-ireland-football-jordan-jones-on-incredible-feeling-shining-for-ni-and-why-michael-oneills-young-guns-are-ready-to-take-on-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561975\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Jordan Jones on &#8216;incredible feeling&#8217; shining for NI\u2026\u00a0and why Michael O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s young guns are ready to take on World"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">\nJordan Jones recalls with pride playing for Northern Ireland why he wouldn\u2019t wash his debut shirt\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jordan Jones in action during Northern Ireland's heartbreaking two-legged World Cup Play-Off loss to Switzerland in 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6fe58aee-f8f1-4bae-ab57-b13565126921.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)\">Jordan Jones in action during Northern Ireland&#8217;s heartbreaking two-legged World Cup Play-Off loss to Switzerland in 2017<\/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)\">It was in November 2017 that Jordan Jones flashed onto the Northern Ireland scene, making a promising debut in a dramatic World Cup Play-Off match in Switzerland.<\/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)\">With his searing pace on the wing, committing and beating defenders, Jones was an exciting talent blessed by an ability to raise the Green and White Army off their seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Jones recalls with pride playing for Northern Ireland why he wouldn\u2019t wash his debut shirt Jordan Jones&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,8538,30649,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-561975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","10":"tag-steven-beacom","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115526964125724215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561975","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=561975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}