{"id":13068,"date":"2022-11-28T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13068"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:06:46","slug":"the-dream-is-always-going-to-be-alive-id-always-love-to-represent-my-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13068","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The dream is always going to be alive. I&#8217;d always love to represent my country&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIMON ZEBO HAS not given up on playing for Ireland again, he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Racing 92 star had to watch on as his former international teammates rounded out an incredible year with an historic defeat of the All Blacks in recent weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d obviously love to play for Ireland,\u201d he told Murray Kinsella on this week\u2019s Heineken Rugby Weekly podcast. \u201cI grew up wanting to play for Munster and Ireland and it\u2019s been a dream playing for Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching the boys in November, it was great because I was just delighted for all the players. I can only imagine how special that day was. I was watching the game, the atmosphere looked unbelievable and they never looked like losing strangely enough. That\u2019s not very often you say that with an Irish team playing the All Blacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a special day and maybe if I didn\u2019t have a taste of beating the All Blacks I might have been a little more envious but for this November series I was just very happy for the boys just because I have so many friends within the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Joe Schmidt has announced his intention to \u2018give up coaching\u2019 after next year\u2019s Rugby World Cup, with Andy Farrell then taking over the head coaching position. The change may bring the possibility of foreign-based players being accommodated by the new Ireland backroom team, Zebo opes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.igaashop.com\/' title='gaa jerseys for sale'>gaa jerseys for sale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah 100%, that would be great,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no rule, so maybe it\u2019s a coaching thing.\u00a0 With Declan [Kidney], Tommy Bowe used to pay abroad and one or two others and with Joe, Johnny played abroad. It\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously they want to keep Irish players playing for the provinces which is very important too but maybe for one-off, very important tournaments there might be a little bit of leeway given, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dream is always going to be alive. I\u2019d always love to represent my country. But having said that it\u2019s not in my hands to decide. I\u2019m just going to keep playing the best rugby I can and keep enjoying myself and if the phone call comes, the phone call comes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    Source: Heineken Rugby Weekly on The42\/SoundCloud<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our new podcast, Heineken Rugby Weekly on The42, here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p  >\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIMON ZEBO HAS not given up on playing for Ireland again, he says.\u00a0 The Racing 92 star had to watch on as his former international teammates rounded out an incredible year with an historic defeat of the All Blacks in recent weeks.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d obviously love to play for Ireland,\u201d he told Murray Kinsella on this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13068\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;The dream is always going to be alive. 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