{"id":8049,"date":"2025-04-10T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8049\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:47:14","slug":"northern-ireland-goalkeeper-jackie-burns-excited-by-canada-move-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/8049\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland goalkeeper Jackie Burns excited by Canada move \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of superb saves from Jackie Burns helped Northern Ireland pick up a much-needed win over Romania in the Nations League at Windsor Park on Tuesday night, winning 1-0 in the end.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old shot stopper was in exceptional form and pulled off some awesome point blank stops, including an injury time volley from Mihaela Ciolacu, to preserve her clean sheet.<\/p>\n

An early strike from 18-year-old Glentoran striker Kascie Weir proved to be the difference between the sides on the night and she found the net after just eight minutes, converting a Keri Halliday\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the victory, Burns, who has recently joined newly formed Canadian side Calgary Wild, recalled the injury time save, \u201cYou don\u2019t really want to be pulled into these opportunities but that\u2019s what you train for as a goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

\"Masters<\/a>\"Lionel<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be a quiet night so to be able to pull off a save like that to keep us in the game puts me in a happy place. I think coming into the second half we knew they were going to come out a bit harder and they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came out on the front foot and as long as we minimised those chances, we did our job. I came away with a clean sheet so I can\u2019t complain. We very much savour them (clean sheets) and we try to get them when we can and obviously with now it\u2019s a bit more challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the game, Burns was straight on to a flight to Canada to meet her new clubmates. Having signed with Calgary Wild from Bristol City, the travel won\u2019t be anything new to Burns as she spent a period playing in the United States for Carson-Newman University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the joys of being a footballer really is building up those airmiles but I\u2019m used to it, I was in the states so I know how to prepare myself and I know how to get myself sorted so we\u2019ll see how it goes,\u201d added the Cookstown native.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be hard (going to different countries) especially with the game in England the way it is. You kind of want to compete with that and maybe stay a bit closer to home because that\u2019s where you\u2019d get a bit of benefit.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for me and my career, it\u2019s just really, how am I going to challenge myself and how am I going to get the best out of myself and that\u2019s a balance of either playing and what a good life experience will be.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day I want to come out football and see all the life experiences I\u2019m going to have and how I\u2019m going to improve from that so if I can come away with great stories from Canada then I\u2019ll be all the better for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s something that I take away from football, that is life outside it. For me it\u2019s having the experience. You remember all the football stuff but at the same time it\u2019s what you\u2019re doing outside of it and who you\u2019re with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people that have followed through this journey and helped you through this journey, that\u2019s the bit that\u2019s most important for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of superb saves from Jackie Burns helped Northern Ireland pick up a much-needed win over Romania…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[943,5116,1144,16,15,5115],"class_list":{"0":"post-8049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-cookstown","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-women-s-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114313982477067098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","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=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}