Ireland host Turkey in the Nations League on Friday before Tuesday’s away match against Slovenia
Republic of Ireland captain Katie McCabe and head coach Carla Ward hope to get their Nations League campaign off to a winning start in Tallaght on Friday. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho, Carla Ward will get her reign as Republic of Ireland head coach under way against Turkey in Tallaght on Friday evening in the opening game of the team’s Nations League campaign., and against a side ranked 35 places below them in the Fifa list, they’ll expect to mark Ward’s bow with a victory.
“Unfortunately we didn’t qualify for the Euros and the FAI made a decision off the back of that, so we need to look forward now, towards how we’re going to qualify for the 2027 World Cup. That starts on Friday night with our new manager in place.” McCabe described that defeat by Wales as “devastating”, one that left her “in a really low place”. “Some of the best feelings I’ve had in my life have been on a football pitch. That day in the Aviva was definitely one of the worst. What we do on the pitch matters for women’s football in Ireland and the future of grassroots football. So yeah, it was devastating.”
She was impressed by what she saw in Wednesday’s game between the Irish under-19s and a development squad, “the amount of quality coming through is really exciting”, she said. “There are quite a few that I liked, and one or two in particular need to get involved early so they’re put in positions that stress them. It’s important that we try to do that as early as possible.”
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