{"id":479227,"date":"2024-02-28T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479227"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:32:08","slug":"republic-of-ireland-hire-oshea-as-interim-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/republic-of-ireland-hire-oshea-as-interim-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland hire O&#8217;Shea as interim head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Man United defender John O&#8217;Shea has been named interim head coach of the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FAI appoint John O\u2019Shea as Interim Head Coach of the Men\u2019s National Team \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Shea, who has 118 caps for Ireland, will take charge of the two international friendlies in March against Belgium and Switzerland at the Aviva Stadium, assisted by Paddy McCarthy \ud83d\udc9a<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ireland Football \u26bd\ufe0f\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea (@IrelandFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrelandFootball\/status\/1762819373327139207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>John, who played 118 matches for his country, was an assistant manager under previous head coach Stephen Kenny and with the Under-21 team.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen left his position after failing to qualify for the upcoming Euro in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>FAI also shared that a new permanent manager of the country will be hired in &#8220;early April.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Red Devils player will lead Republic of Ireland in the friendlies vs. Belgium and Switzerland next month and will be supported by the Eagles assistant manager Paddy McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Sunderland player has been manager in Reading and Stoke City before joining ex-Man United teammate Wayne Rooney&#8217;s backroom team in Birmingham City.<\/p>\n<p>He left the team at the beginning of the year after Rooney was fired as manager.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Shea, who played until 2019, admitted that he is honored to lead the nation in March friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>The Football Association of Ireland chief Marc Canham shared a few days ago that the federation is very close to hiring a new permanent head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Man United defender John O&#8217;Shea has been named interim head coach of the Republic of Ireland. FAI appoint John O\u2019Shea as Interim Head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479228,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18476],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[22716,21284],"acf":{"announce":"John was assistant manager under Stephen Kenny, who left last year.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479242,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479227\/revisions\/479242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479227"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479227"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}