{"id":614711,"date":"2025-12-05T22:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614711\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:45:24","slug":"michael-oneill-im-even-more-determined-to-lead-ni-to-world-cup-after-favourable-potential-group-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614711\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O\u2019Neill: I\u2019m even more determined to lead NI to World Cup after favourable potential group draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael O'Neill at the World Cup draw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ceb5cac7-fa44-4a5d-8b3f-37b7bf9402f1.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)\">Michael O&#8217;Neill at the World Cup draw<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Rutherford in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Today at 23:26<\/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)\">Michael O\u2019Neill revealed a potentially favourable group has made him more determined than ever to guide Northern Ireland to next summer\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)\">O\u2019Neill\u2019s side know they will face co-hosts Canada, Switzerland and Qatar \u2013 if they can come through the Play-Offs in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael O&#8217;Neill at the World Cup draw Adrian Rutherford in Washington D.C. Today at 23:26 Michael O\u2019Neill revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[31133,1144,8538,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-614711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-michael-oneill","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115669390540209807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614711","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=614711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}