Irish Abroad 2016/17

[tetsujin1979]

The new season for Irish players based outside Ireland starts tonight, with Aberdeen playing CS Fola Esch of Luxembourg, and Hearts playing FC Infonet from Estonia

[tetsujin1979]

Scholars added to academy at Everton: http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2016/0...ded-to-academy

Stephen Duke-McKenna (Midfielder): A skilful left winger, Duke-McKenna was born in Liverpool and is eligible to play for Guyana, Holland, Republic of Ireland, as well as England.
Tom Murphy (Goalkeeper): An Irish custodian, Murphy believes his main strength is shot stopping. He also enjoys Gaelic football.

[tetsujin1979]

U17 defender Tyreke Wilson among a number of academy players handed professional contracts by Man City: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....olars-11558166

Here's what Man City blogger InEsteemedKompany had to say about him: https://twitter.com/EsteemedKompany/...59056473370626

10) Tyreke Wilson. Very attacking, very competitive left back. Gets forward well with excellent pace.

[tetsujin1979]

The Italian Jobs - what was discovered when researching the history of Italian losses in international tournaments: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...36330079217577

[tetsujin1979]

Reading to rename North Stand after Eamonn Dolan: http://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/arti...m-3168672.aspx

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

New four-year contract with Man City for the former Cherry Orchard player.

http://www.the42.ie/irish-youngster-...62889-Jul2016/

And with a four-year contract I assume a loan to a league team will be on the agenda soon enough.

[tetsujin1979]

New four-year contract with Man City for the former Cherry Orchard player.

http://www.the42.ie/irish-youngster-...62889-Jul2016/

And with a four-year contract I assume a loan to a league team will be on the agenda soon enough.

Please don't start a new thread every time a player signs a contract. The policy is to do that when they make a first team appearance, either as starter or on the bench.

[tetsujin1979]

Former underage player Gerard Nash to take over as U21 coach at Ipswich: http://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-n...-be-u21s-coach
I went to school with a lad called Gerard Nash, so the name stuck in my head when he was called into Ireland squads
Had a quick search on fai.ie and found these three U17 games from 2002:
VS Germany: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/match/23/2003/69550
VS France: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/match/23/2003/69551
VS Slovenia: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/match/23/2003/69554
Some familiar names there, along with the usual "where is he now?"

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

I went to school with a lad called Niall Quinn. Shortarse who was useless at sports.

[Wangball]

Not sure if this has been posted before but former U19 cap Matty Mainwaring is now a professional boxer training under Ricky & Matthew Hatton

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....oxing-10589094

[tetsujin1979]

Updated the site with teams and players for the 2016/17 season: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/CompetitionDetails

[liamoo11]

Just a mention for youth hawk which is a great website for keeping an eye on Irish lads in youth and under 21 football in the uk unfortunately doesn't do Scotland. Brighton seems to have the most Irish underage players at present there academy head was our under 15 coach a few yes ago I think . An interesting one on it is a Leicester city lad keaveney who has played for us and been involved with Hungary as well. Seems to b a few Irish strikers around in uk youth teams which is good.

[Charlie Darwin]

Just a mention for youth hawk which is a great website for keeping an eye on Irish lads in youth and under 21 football in the uk unfortunately doesn't do Scotland. Brighton seems to have the most Irish underage players at present there academy head was our under 15 coach a few yes ago I think . An interesting one on it is a Leicester city lad keaveney who has played for us and been involved with Hungary as well. Seems to b a few Irish strikers around in uk youth teams which is good.

Keaveney wearing an Ireland top in his twitter profile: https://twitter.com/joe_keaveny9

[SkStu]

ours to lose.

[tetsujin1979]

ours to lose.

don't think it'll be a problem: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCA-FSeqdK-/

[Olé Olé]

don't think it'll be a problem: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCA-FSeqdK-/

His Instagram tagline is 'É a dhéanamh mé féin' too!

I haven't much of an idea of his background but his first name is down on Youth Hawk as being Jozsef which hints that his mother is Hungarian but that's a guess...

[tetsujin1979]

Wexford Youth's Ryan Delaney set to be offered a deal by Burton Albion, but it's a case of "don't call us, we'll call you" for Jay Tabb: http://www.burtonalbionfc.co.uk/news...n-3195692.aspx

"Ryan Delaney is off back to Ireland this morning, he’s a cracking lad and we would look to try and get him fixed up if we can. He hasn’t played at a high standard in football and doesn’t train full time, that’s why we brought him off today he was a bit tired."

“With Jay Tabb, he is a great professional and great lad. We haven’t ruled out bringing him in but for the time being we are waiting to hear back on a few of our loan enquiries for wide players so we aren’t in the position currently of bringing him in.”

[tetsujin1979]

full list of transfers, loans and new contracts signed by Irish players in July 2016: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...47823770015315

[tetsujin1979]

The Scottish Challenge Cup has had a revamp for the 2016/17 season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E..._Challenge_Cup
Jon Daly is managing the Hearts U20 who beat Stirling Albion last night
U18 goalkeeper David Craddock is playing for the Aberdeen U20s, they beat Formartine(who had Conor Gethins lining out for them) 5-2 last night

[tetsujin1979]

Ahead of the domestic leagues in Scotland and England kicking off tonight, we've compiled the first round up of 2016/17 featuring Conor Sammon's first goal in European competition, two senior debuts & Darren O'Dea's 200th start: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...11765287022504