2011 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship

[IsMiseSean]

Anyone have any idea if the game on Wednesday will be televised/streamed somewhere?

Eurosport are showing the Romania/Czechs & Spain/Belgium wednesday.
On Saturday they're showing Serbia/Spain & our game V Czech Rep at 5pm
That's what my sky guide is telling me anyway....

[ArdeeBhoy]

There will be family members there too. We had about 100 fans in Turkey in 2008 for the U17s but my 2 mates and me were the only ones without connections to the players.

Yeah was in tongue-in-cheek re.TF but admire your, er, collective dedication. Have to say a week or so in Bucharest doesn't really appeal, mind.

[geysir]

Bucharest's obvious appeal at this time is the Euro Finals, where Ireland will be playing at least 3 games.

[ArdeeBhoy]

We know.

It still doesn't appeal though.

[AlaskaFox]

Romania preview:
http://greenscene.me/2011/07/2011-euro-u19-championship-preview-romania/

[TrapAPony]

Kane Ferdinand will seemingly be known as Kane Ferdinand McGovern for the tournament.
http://www.uefa.com/under19/teams/player=250027821/index.html

[DannyInvincible]

Kane Ferdinand will seemingly be known as Kane Ferdinand McGovern for the tournament.
http://www.uefa.com/under19/teams/player=250027821/index.html

I assume McGovern is his father's surname.

Was just looking at the odds for the Greece game with William Hill and they have Greece as very slight favourites to win at 11/8 with us at 13/8 to win. The odds for a draw are 21/10. I don't think the game is being televised anywhere, either on Eurosport or Romanian television, so it doesn't look likely there'll be a stream, unfortunately. I can't see any sign of UEFA streaming the games on their site either. Ireland's game with Romania on Tuesday the 26th will be televised on Romanian television, so I'd be hopeful of a stream for that. Of course, Eurosport are televising the one this Saturday against the Czechs. Both those games are at 5PM Irish time. Kick-off against Greece is at 7PM Irish time.

Will we be wearing the new jersey then?

[AlaskaFox]

Part Four, Ireland:
http://greenscene.me/2011/07/2011-euro-u19-championship-preview-republic-of-ireland/

[tetsujin1979]

according to fai.ie - http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=101912&catid=4&Itemid=12 - there will be highlights on EuroSport after the Romania - Czech Republic game

Ireland kick-off their UEFA Championship finals campaign against Greece on Wednesday at 9pm (local time.) Highlights of the game will be available on Eurosport following the other game in Group A between Romania and Czech Republic which kicks-off at the same time.

[Kingdom]

Anyone know how big Egan is? He looks like a brute! I know there is high hopes for him down below.

[Charlie Darwin]

He's the son of former Kerry GAA all-star John Egan.

[Kingdom]

He's the son of former Kerry GAA all-star John Egan.

That he is.

[Charlie Darwin]

Posted that without reading your name. Spectacular judgement as always.

[geysir]

Anyone know who big Egan is?
A rhetorical question?


He looks like a brute!
Par for the course down there.


I know there is high hopes for him down below
Can't get any lower than down below.

[DannyInvincible]

Streams for the opening game between Spain and Belgium at 5PM this evening will be available here: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=123278&part=sports

Might be worth keeping an eye on Spain as they're strong favourites to win the competition outright. They might even play some nice football too.

Hopefully, links for the Romania-Czech Republic game in our group will appear here at some point later: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=123279&part=sports

[Kingdom]

Apologies lads, I can see the confusion now, what I meant to ask was how big is Egan (physically - not organ-wise geysir)?

[AlaskaFox]

The Score's preview:
"Ireland enter the competition as something of an unknown quantity." Good Lord.
http://www.thescore.ie/a-bluffers-guide-to-the-uefa-u19-championship-180622-Jul2011/

ExtraTime.ie:
http://extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/6200/

[AlaskaFox]

Spain - Belgium stream:
http://nwxyz2.blogspot.com/p/channel-2.html

[Closed Account]

1-0 Spain at the moment. But the players are off the pitch because of thunderstorms and fork lightning.
Good passing move, bit lucky at the end but Morata from Real Madrid scored from 6 yards.

[DannyInvincible]

Half-time between Serbia and Turkey. Score is 0-0 in that. What's happening with the Spain-Belgium game then? Are they hoping to continue play this evening?

[AlaskaFox]

1-0 to Serbia.

Spain-Belgium postponed. Will play at 17:00 tomorrow night.

[AlaskaFox]

Irish match is on at the nearby venue. No news about it yet.

[DannyInvincible]

Serbia are 1-0 up against Turkey. Miloš Jojić of FK Teleoptik scored in the 57th minute. About 10 minutes to go in that game.

I see there's diving (not of the footballing variety) on Eurosport at the minute. I'd been hoping they might have switched to broadcasting the Serbia-Turkey game.

[AlaskaFox]

Serbia are 1-0 up against Turkey. Miloš Jojić of FK Teleoptik scored in the 57th minute. About 10 minutes to go in that game.

I see there's diving (not of the footballing variety) on Eurosport at the minute. I'd been hoping they might have switched to broadcasting the Serbia-Turkey game.

Yeah, they switched to that pretty quickly after the match was interrupted.

[Drumcondra 69er]

Gutted there's no stream, was really looking forward to seeing our game....

[Stuttgart88]

from that article:

except for the UEFA U17 Championships in 2008


There's quite a long article in the magazine section of the Sunday Independent debating the level of interest in the Irish soccer team, compared to rugby and golf (seriously, golf) in the national psyche, where John Delaney's salary is quoted as €420,000. Elsewhere in the same paper, it's mentioned as €450,000. Whether it is or it isn't, or if he deserves it is a debate for another day, but some level of consistent reporting would help!The Indo has a very anti-football agenda right now and are very quick to put a halo around all things rugby related. However, I thought the article you refer to was a decent enough article in fairness and Mick Wallace's quotes were bang on and added balance. It was strange that The Indo felt that Trap, being another foreigner wheeled in to tell us what to do, might be a factor. I didn't hear many complain about Joe Schmidt!

Irish Times today reports that only about 1,000 Irish will travel to NZ for the rugby, but will be joined by the ex-pat / backpacking entourage. That's pretty disappointing I reckon.

Anyway, I'm just back from a few days with my family in Rathfarnham. The Stuttgart Rathfarnham Castle Playground survey repeated its April result: Of the kids wearing branded sports gear there was one one Dublin GAA, one Leinster rugby shirt, one Leinster pair of tracky bottoms, 2 Arsenal shirts (brothers I think - dad must be a fan!), 2 Man U, 2 Liverpool, one Argentina football, one Italy football. Only one Ireland football shirt and it was one of those unofficial Dunnes Stores jobbies. One grown up was wearing an Irish rugby shirt.

Of those playing games on the grass, there was one group of hurlers, one group playing football and two lads with a rugby ball. I think there were all part of the same larger group - which confirms my view that kids now play everything, which is good.

[DannyInvincible]

Gutted there's no stream, was really looking forward to seeing our game....

Might be lucky if it's played this evening at all. From what I can make out, Mogoşoaia, where the Spain-Belgium game was called off due to adverse weather, is 8 kilometres away from Buftea, where our match is taking place. Any update on it?

As for the Serbia-Turkey game, 64th minute substitute, Nikola Trujić, put Serbia 2-0 up in the 89th minute in. Game just finished there. Not a surprising result considering how Serbia performed in qualifying, although I don't understand at all why they were considered such outsiders to win the competition outright by the bookies.

[DannyInvincible]

They've announced the line-ups for our game on UEFA.com (http://www.uefa.com/under19/matches/season=2011/live/day=36/session=1/match=2008063/matchcenterlight/index.html), although it doesn't appear to have started yet...


1 Stefanos Kapino (GK) 1 Aaron McCarey (GK)
3 Kostas Stafylidis 2 Matthew Doherty
4 Tasos Lagos 3 Derrick Williams
5 Giannis Potouridis (C) 4 John Egan (C)
7 Charis Mavrias 5 Anthony O'Connor
10 Kostas Fortounis 6 Jeffrey Hendrick
11 Nikos Karelis 7 Samir Carruthers
14 Nikos Marinakis 8 John O'Sullivan
15 Kostas Rougalas 10 Conor Murphy
16 Dimitris Diamantakos 11 Anthony Forde
17 Giorgos Katidis 15 Sean Murray

Substitutes
12 Kostas Kaldelis (GK) 16 Sean McDermott (GK)
2 Nikos Skondras 9 Kevin Knight
6 Panagiotis Stamogiannos 12 Kane Ferdinand McGovern
8 Kostas Kotsaridis 14 Eoin Wearen
9 Anastasios Bakasetas 17 Declan Walker
13 Vasilis Bouzas 18 Joseph Shaughnessy
18 Dimitris Kolovos 19 Connor Smith

Are they going to continue the Spain game from the 19th minute at 1-0 or start the game from the beginning again at 0-0? Has anything like that ever happened before?

[TrapAPony]

2-0 Serbia

[DannyInvincible]

Thankfully, our match is under way. Best of luck to the lads.

1-0 to us already! Anthony O'Connor in the second minute. Brilliant.

[faigirl]

yippeee

[DannyInvincible]

Greece just equalised. 1-1.

[faigirl]

Greece score!

[DannyInvincible]

There are links to view the Romania-Czech match here, for anyone interested: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=123279&part=sports

It's being broadcast on Eurosport 2.

The rain looks torrential.

[AlaskaFox]

Our man in the stadium is doing his best to provide commentary for us:
http://greenscene.me/2011/07/republic-of-ireland-u19-v-greece-u19-live-commentary/

[DannyInvincible]

Nicolae Stanciu puts Romania 1-0 up against the Czechs with what looked like a freak effort from just outside the right edge of the box. Looked like he was attempting a cross with the side of his foot but somehow managed to misfire it past the completely lost keeper and into the net at the far post.

[Paddy Garcia]

No stream : (

Watching Cardiff V Celtic instead - Mason and Gerrard starting for Cardiff.

[DannyInvincible]

Czechs make it 1-1 against Romania. Tomáš Přikryl scored from a tight angle beating the keeper at the near post. Poor defending and goalkeeping. Half-time in that game now.

[DannyInvincible]

Both games are under way again.

The Spain-Belgium game will be replayed in full tomorrow evening: http://www.uefa.com/under19/news/newsid=1652223.html


The UEFA European Under-19 Championship Group B match between Spain and Belgium will be replayed in full, in accordance with article 10.04 of 2010/11 competition regulations, on Thursday 21 July having been abandoned after 15 minutes by the referee due to adverse weather conditions.

The game at the Football Centre FRF in Mogosoaia, Romania, will kick off at 18.00CET.

Suppose Belgium can count themselves lucky.

[DannyInvincible]

2-1! Anthony O'Connor from a Murray corner again.

[Closed Account]

2-1! Anthony O'Connor from a Murray corner again.
Nice one. Hopefully their defence stays as tight as it was in qualifying for the remaining 35mins.

[Closed Account]

With 3 players in the book now for Ireland (Doherty, Carruthers, Hendrick), what are the rules for this tournament? Two yellows in the group stages and you miss the next game?

[BonnieShels]

2-1! Anthony O'Connor from a Murray corner again.

Direct from the corner?

[DannyInvincible]

Czechs 2-1 up against Romania through a penalty taken by Tomáš Jeleček.

Photo of O'Connor celebrating Ireland's first from the UEFA site (http://www.uefa.com/under19/photos/index.html):


http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Photo/competitions/Comp_Matches/01/65/22/32/1652232_w2.jpg

©Sportsfile
Anthony O'Connor (Republic of Ireland)
Anthony O'Connor of the Republic of Ireland rejoices after scoring the opening goal during their UEFA European Under-19 Championship Group B match against Greece

[DannyInvincible]

Direct from the corner?

Carbon copy of the first, I believe. Corner onto O'Connor's head and into the net.

[paul_oshea]

unlike some on here i just can't get excited about kids.

[AlaskaFox]

Carbon copy of the first, I believe. Corner onto O'Connor's head and into the net.

Short corner crossed in according to our man :D

[SwanVsDalton]

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Photo/competitions/Comp_Matches/01/65/22/32/1652232_w2.jpg

The Greeks appear to be set out ultra defensive - from that shot it looks like they've parked the bus.

[paul_oshea]

The Indo has a very anti-football agenda right now and are very quick to put a halo around all things rugby related. However, I thought the article you refer to was a decent enough article in fairness and Mick Wallace's quotes were bang on and added balance. It was strange that The Indo felt that Trap, being another foreigner wheeled in to tell us what to do, might be a factor. I didn't hear many complain about Joe Schmidt!

Irish Times today reports that only about 1,000 Irish will travel to NZ for the rugby, but will be joined by the ex-pat / backpacking entourage. That's pretty disappointing I reckon.

Anyway, I'm just back from a few days with my family in Rathfarnham. The Stuttgart Rathfarnham Castle Playground survey repeated its April result: Of the kids wearing branded sports gear there was one one Dublin GAA, one Leinster rugby shirt, one Leinster pair of tracky bottoms, 2 Arsenal shirts (brothers I think - dad must be a fan!), 2 Man U, 2 Liverpool, one Argentina football, one Italy football. Only one Ireland football shirt and it was one of those unofficial Dunnes Stores jobbies. One grown up was wearing an Irish rugby shirt.

Of those playing games on the grass, there was one group of hurlers, one group playing football and two lads with a rugby ball. I think there were all part of the same larger group - which confirms my view that kids now play everything, which is good.

you've got to be careful hanging around all these playgrounds Stutts.as they say in gladstone park 'no adults unaccompanied by kids'

rathfarnham is far from a GAA stronghold.more so soccer way more so rugby so that has to be a good thing.

[Junior]

whats left, about 10 mins?