{"id":169212,"date":"2026-04-24T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=169212"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:46:36","slug":"interview-mick-mccarthy-discusses-squad-selection-for-new-zealand-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=169212","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW | Mick McCarthy discusses squad selection for New Zealand &#038; Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j5zvpkrdTz4?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Ireland manager Mick McCarthy sat down with FAI TV to discuss his squad selection for the upcoming friendly against New Zealand and the crucial UEFA European Championships Qualifier against Denmark.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j5zvpkrdTz4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland manager Mick McCarthy sat down with FAI TV to discuss his squad selection for the upcoming friendly against New Zealand and the crucial UEFA European Championships Qualifier against Denmark&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":169213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169212","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\/169212","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=169212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}