{"id":1604,"date":"2026-06-05T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:36:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-efl-players-to-look-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: EFL players to look out for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Hull midfielder Amir Hadziahmetovic will be at the World Cup with Bosnia, as will his Tigers team-mate Ivor Pandur, who has been selected for Croatia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Premier League-bound players competing include Coventry striker Haji Wright, who is in the United States squad, and Ipswich&#8217;s Iraqi forward Ali Al-Hamadi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watford goalkeeper Egil Selvik and Derby defender Sondre Langas will represent Norway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curacao, the smallest nation to ever qualify for the tournament, have three EFL players in their squad &#8211; Rotherham United&#8217;s Ar&#8217;Jany Martha, Sheffield United midfielder Tahith Chong and Middlesbrough forward Sontje Hansen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Scotland, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4g94rpvx73o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">will have five players from the Championship<\/a> in Dom Hyam (Wrexham), Kenny McLean (Norwich), Lyndon Dykes (Charlton), George Hirst (Ipswich) and Ross Stewart (Southampton).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere, Hull midfielder Amir Hadziahmetovic will be at the World Cup with Bosnia, as will his Tigers team-mate Ivor Pandur,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}