Darren O'Dea

[DeLorean]

I guess this was the biggest:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBuRYwtjcI

[tetsujin1979]

O'Dea appears on this week's edition of the excellent Irishman Abroad podcast with Jarlath Regan: https://soundcloud.com/an-irishman-abroad/darren-odea-episode-53

[Predator]

I really admire O'Dea for making the most of his lot and especially for trying his luck in Canada and Ukraine. He's not the best defender out there but he has a good attitude, applies himself. He and others such as Cillian Sheridan should be lauded to younger Irish footballers as an example of the chances offered up by the football world outside of Britain.

[tetsujin1979]

Signed with Blackpool until January: http://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/article/odea-joins-the-seasiders-2123990.aspx
Best of luck to him there, absolute basket case of a club lately

[samhaydenjr]

Signed with Blackpool until January: http://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/article/odea-joins-the-seasiders-2123990.aspx
Best of luck to him there, absolute basket case of a club lately

Well, considering his last three clubs were Leeds United, Toronto FC and Metalurh Donetsk, a bit of instability should be right up his alley

[the doc]

Good lad Dazza, I prefer him at CB than that clown Keogh or Clark.

[Fixer82]

Good lad Dazza, I prefer him at CB than that clown Keogh or Clark.

Say how you really feel

[KK77]

Good lad Dazza, I prefer him at CB than that clown Keogh or Clark.

I would prefer him to Keogh yes for sure but not Clarke.

[nigel-harps1954]

Good lad Dazza, I prefer him at CB than that clown Keogh or Clark.


He's no Sean St Ledger though.

[Charlie Darwin]

He's no Sean St Ledger though.
Never heard of him.

[tetsujin1979]

Was on the bench today for Blackpool, didn't come on though

[tetsujin1979]

deal with Blackpool extended until the end of the season: http://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/article/odea-extends-blackpool-stay-2191052.aspx

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/darren-odea-im-open-to-another-stint-playing-abroad-31131366.html

Interest in O'Dea's services from many countries.

[GypsyBlackCat]

I really admire O'Dea for making the most of his lot and especially for trying his luck in Canada and Ukraine. He's not the best defender out there but he has a good attitude, applies himself. He and others such as Cillian Sheridan should be lauded to younger Irish footballers as an example of the chances offered up by the football world outside of Britain.
I think this is the route young Irish players have to go down. We seem to think that making it in Britain is the be all and end all of football.

[CraftyToePoke]

Released by Blackpool
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32794959

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

O'Dea set to join Mumbai City.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33493123

[tetsujin1979]

O'Dea missed out on Mumbai City's first game of the season today through injury, they lost 3-1 to Pune City.

[paul_oshea]

Pune City.

Unless a vegetable city has sprung up in India.

you're in IT you should know that... Tut tet

[CraftyToePoke]

SPL bound again with Dundee it looks like

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35245092

[Crosby87]

Wonder how he fancied India?

[BonnieShels]

SPL bound again with Dundee it looks like

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35245092

Dammit, if it had been United we could have said "from India to the Arabs".

[tetsujin1979]

signed for Dundee until the end of the season: http://www.dundeefc.co.uk/news/odea-is-a-dee

[DeLorean]

He gets around in fairness to him. That will be some quiz question in 20/30 years? What Irish international played club football in Canada, Ukraine and India!! He's surely unique in thiat regard.

[Stuttgart88]

and people complain that our footballers don't take risks with their careers!

I believe Roy O'D got into a spot of bother in Australia

[CraftyToePoke]

Off to a flyer says his manager.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35335298

[DeLorean]

Nice one... even if they did age him a bit. He's not 29 for another couple of weeks.

[tetsujin1979]

in the BT Sport team of the week for the SPL: https://twitter.com/BTSportSPFL/status/701788464354881536

[Fixer82]

Could he make a dramatic return to the Irish squad in the next year or two if he continues to play well in Scotland (albeit a terrible league)?
Figured his international career was over when he was playing in India

[CraftyToePoke]

Could he make a dramatic return to the Irish squad in the next year or two if he continues to play well in Scotland (albeit a terrible league)

Hard to know, but a step closer to it than being in India surely. It went so badly for Gunning & Rooney in England after looking so comfortable in Scotland, and Kiernan at Rangers too will be spoken about if he steps up with them, always hard to tell with lads playing SPL.

[Charlie Darwin]

Hard to know, but a step closer to it than being in India surely. It went so badly for Gunning & Rooney in England after looking so comfortable in Scotland, and Kiernan at Rangers too will be spoken about if he steps up with them, always hard to tell with lads playing SPL.
Well Gunning just got broken - that could happen in any league.

[DannyInvincible]

Dundee captain O'Dea helped salvage a 1-1 draw for his team against Ross County today in the SPL as he slotted home a 76th-minute penalty: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/1002002/dundee-1-ross-county-1-skipper-darren-odea-rescues-neil-mccanns-dens-park-homecoming-party/