{"id":73018,"date":"2026-04-01T03:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/nestory-irankunda-watford-forward-scores-twice-for-australia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:38:34","slug":"nestory-irankunda-watford-forward-scores-twice-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/nestory-irankunda-watford-forward-scores-twice-for-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestory Irankunda: Watford forward scores twice for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Watford forward Nestory Irankunda scored twice as Australia <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c4glpq6zpz3t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">beat Curacao 5-1<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> in their friendly in Melbourne on Tuesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old was introduced as a 67th-minute substitute by Socceroos boss Tony Popovic as the home side recovered from conceding an equaliser early in the second-half to run out comfortable winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irankunda scored his double in the space of four minutes having also featured as a substitute in Australia&#8217;s 1-0 win over Cameroon in Sydney last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is set to be part of the Australia World Cup squad for this summer&#8217;s tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico and will now return to England for Watford&#8217;s trip to QPR in the Championship on Friday (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1d9e5gek54o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watford forward Nestory Irankunda scored twice as Australia beat Curacao 5-1 in their friendly in Melbourne on Tuesday. The 20-year-old was introduced as a 67th-minute substitute by Socceroos boss Tony Popovic as the home side recovered from conceding an equaliser early in the second-half to run out comfortable winners. Irankunda scored his double in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[409,20028,20027,415,1268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73018"}],"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=73018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73020,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73018\/revisions\/73020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}