{"id":48382,"date":"2025-02-06T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/scotland-squad-overhaul-for-nations-league-openers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:29:54","slug":"scotland-squad-overhaul-for-nations-league-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/scotland-squad-overhaul-for-nations-league-openers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland squad overhaul for Nations League openers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Michael McArdle has named six uncapped players in his first Scotland squad as interim head coach for this month&#8217;s women&#8217;s Nations League openers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are first call-ups for Celtic defender Emma Lawton, Hearts midfielder Eilidh Shore, Hibernian forward Eilidh Adams and Newcastle United midfielder Freya Gregory, who represented England at youth level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goalkeeper Erin Clachers and Rangers&#8217; teenage winger Mia McAulay are also included as nine players have been left out from the squad that failed in their Euro 2025 play-off final against Finland in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McArdle, who was appointed on a short-term basis last month while the Scottish FA continue their search for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ceqlr4w7y2ro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">permanent successor to Pedro Martinez Losa<\/a>, has also chosen Leah Eddie, Lauren Davidson, Amy Muir and Kirsty Maclean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Rachel Corsie remains out injured after suffering a set-back while there is no place for Rangers skipper Nicola Docherty &#8211; who started in Helsinki &#8211; or 115-time capped Glasgow City winger Lisa Evans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jenna Fife, Kelly Clark, Emma Mukandi, Shannon McGregor, Jamie-Lee Napier, Amy Rodgers and Brogan Hay also make way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland kick off their Nations League A campaign in Austria on 21 February before welcoming the Netherlands at Hampden four days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Germany, ranked third in the world, complete the group and face the Scots in an April double-header. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1dg27rd19qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael McArdle has named six uncapped players in his first Scotland squad as interim head coach for this month&#8217;s women&#8217;s Nations League openers. There are first call-ups for Celtic defender Emma Lawton, Hearts midfielder Eilidh Shore, Hibernian forward Eilidh Adams and Newcastle United midfielder Freya Gregory, who represented England at youth level. Goalkeeper Erin Clachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[206,3339,15707,9116,688,4287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48384,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382\/revisions\/48384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}