{"id":131608,"date":"2025-08-16T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=131608"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:20:27","slug":"interview-shane-robinson-jason-cowman-on-fai-national-pathways-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=131608","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW | Shane Robinson &#038; Jason Cowman on FAI National Pathways Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YVujD-Cg-g4?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>More than 250 of Ireland\u2019s most promising young footballers have spent their summer immersed in an international environment, following the launch of the FAI\u2019s new National Pathways Programme (NPP) pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Pilot Programme Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>250+ high-potential players (boys &#038; girls) engaged.<br \/>\n67 clubs represented nationwide (24 boys, 43 girls).<br \/>\n8-week curriculum with three daily training sessions.<br \/>\n3-day residential camps each week.<br \/>\n5 football sessions weekly, including one dedicated Futsal session.<br \/>\n16+ educational modules on topics such as nutrition, goal setting, recovery, social media awareness, and anti-doping.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVujD-Cg-g4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250 of Ireland\u2019s most promising young footballers have spent their summer immersed in an international environment, following the launch of the FAI\u2019s new National Pathways Programme (NPP) pilot&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":131609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}