{"id":567965,"date":"2025-11-13T16:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567965\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:27:16","slug":"its-something-ive-dreamed-of-since-i-was-young-conor-bradley-eager-to-achieve-world-cup-ambition-with-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567965\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s something I\u2019ve dreamed of since I was young\u2019: Conor Bradley eager to achieve World Cup ambition with NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conor Bradley leads Northern Ireland training in Ko\u0161ice\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f0ea4593-edc9-4b95-8cc5-f36722681bbd.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)\">Conor Bradley leads Northern Ireland training in Ko\u0161ice<\/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)\">Northern Ireland star Conor Bradley has opened up about the pressure and demands of playing for Liverpool and explained why it would mean so much to him to qualify for next year\u2019s World Cup.<\/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 22-year-old was speaking on the eve of his country\u2019s crucial qualifier away to Slovakia on Friday, revealing his thoughts on being compared to Steven Gerrard, what it was like facing Real Madrid\u2019s Vinicius Jr and Manchester City\u2019s Jeremy Doku in successive matches and his feelings on hearing his name chanted by the Green and White Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Bradley leads Northern Ireland training in Ko\u0161ice Northern Ireland star Conor Bradley has opened up about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[8928,31133,1144,8538,30649,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-567965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-conor-bradley","9":"tag-michael-oneill","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","12":"tag-steven-beacom","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115543333856336499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567965","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=567965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}