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The teams in the group stage of the UEFA Youth League have submitted their squads
Arsenal have U17 player Marcus Agyei-Tabi in their squad: http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/...uad/index.html
Manchester City have included Aaron O'Driscoll in their squad: http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/...uad/index.html
Manchester United have named James Dunne in their squad: http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/...uad/index.html
lyden gooch who played for our under 18s at some stage was on the bench a few weeks ago for sunderland but seems he is firmly with the us now
"It’s a great honour to represent your country. It’s been really good and hopefully I can break into America’s U23 squad soon" From an interview this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
Also named Barclays U21 Premier League Player of the Month!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-teenager.html
Conor Masterson training with the Liverpool senior team last week: http://gty.im/487534842
Irish Abroad player appearance statistics for September 2015: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...42449743036271
Might be reading too much into Kyle Callan-McFadden's recent activity on twitter, but it looks like he's going to sign for Orlando City - https://twitter.com/KyleMc4/
I noted that too so I did a bit of rooting. That Harrison Heath that he retweeted is the manager of Orlando City's son. Harrison was in the youth system at Norwich from 2012 to 2014 and is the same age as Kyle. Fingers crossed for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Josh Barrett signed a contract with Reading until 2018: https://twitter.com/10joshbarrett/st...20091946315778
Interesting background by this lad: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/player/888841318Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
He's been well among the goals in the under-18 league so far this season also even though he is described as a winger or attacking midfielder there.
Amidst all the excitement of the Euros, I just wanted to note that there were a few Irish goalscorers in League today - John Egan with his third of the season for Gillingham, Paddy Madden with his seventh for Scunthorpe and Liam Kinsella got his first for Walsall.
Kane Ferdinand scored for Dagenham and Redbridge as well
Full lineups from all Saturday's games on my live blog here: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Live
seems Kyle McFadden has agreed terms with Orlando, but won't play until next season: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sport...1013-post.html
Quote:
The club has been aggressively scouting for next year’s team and sources say the club has already agreed to terms with former Norwich City center back Kyle Callan-McFadden, an Irish under-21 international who has been training with the Lions for several weeks.
Can't find a thread on him but it's very interesting to note that Jamie Devitt has 10 assists so far this season from 15 games for 8th placed Morecambe in League Two. That's easily the highest across all the leagues in England.
Irish player appearance stats for October 2015: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...96666710173607
i've noticed the "Green Shoots" weekly player roundup on fai.ie includes Emmanuel Osadebe from Gillingham, but I can't find any other mention of him on the site - not in squads, player profiles, etc - and his soccerway and soccerbase profiles list him as English.
However, Gillingham's wikipedia entry has an Irish flag next to his name. Anyone know if he's Irish qualified?
He's from Dundalk - they call him Frank Osadebe up thereQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Aviva Stadium ranked at 88th in the world by FourFourTwo: http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/...VJRpblzGxaQTCA
Marcus Agyebi-Tabi has changed his international allegiance to England, and is included in their U17 squad for a friendly against Germany: http://www.thefa.com/news/england/de...-double-header
I really don't make enough use of this thread. Just saw motd while ago.
Clark had a really tough day for Villa. He's probably the least of Villa's problems but it could be argued that he should have done better for a couple of the goals. He might have got a bit too tight to Lukaku in the build up for the first goal, although it was a lovely little first time flick by the big guy so maybe Clark did his job in not allowing him to get turned. Deulofeu skipped past him way to easily to set up a chance for Kone but Guzan saved well and he probably wasn't close enough to Lukaku when he headed his first, which was nicely assisted by Coleman by the way. Gibson saw some game time after coming on for McCarthy with about ten minutes left.
Robbie Brady seemed heavily involved at the game at Stamford Bridge and probably should have had a penalty in the first half, as Willian kind of ploughed into the back of him when he seemed to have the ball protected, although ploughed is probably too strong a word. He also had a decent strike from outside the box just wide in the second half, after out muscling Matic of all people.
Arter was involved in Bournemouth's second goal at Swansea, which was very well worked and finished by Gosling. Martin Tyler also mentioned him in the live evening game at The Ethiad, when Aguero was substituted with City needing goals. He referred to the whole risk v need factor and brought up how Bournemouth had done the same thing with Harry Arter when he was running the game a couple of weeks ago, he seems to have been seriously impressed with him to bring it up two weeks later again!
McClean did very well for West Brom's winner against Arsenal, a powerful overlapping run before crossing to the near post where Arteta put it into his own net. He had a dodgy moment defending late on when he slipped in the box, allowing Campbell a chance on goal but he put it wide.
Elliot couldn't have done much about the Leicester goals, although he was beaten at his near post for Vardy's record equaling goal, it was hit perfectly along the ground though with power and accuracy. He did look a bit all over the place for the third but don't think he could be blamed, he made a decent save in the build up but his own defender got in his way after that and Okazaki poked home. He made a couple of decent saves as well, including two one-on-ones with Vardy.
Walters and Long seemed peripheral figures if the highlights of the Southampton Stoke game are anything to go by.
You're just going to have to trust me on this, but the change on this article on the42 - http://www.the42.ie/opinion-oneill-g...54767-Nov2015/ - was due to a comment I made.
Originally, there was no mention of the win over Slovakia in this paragraph
The comment I added about the Slovakia game was subsequently removed when they made the change!Quote:
The Germany match was the first time the Irish team had won a competitive home game against a team ranked above them (with the exception of a forgettable 1-0 victory over Slovakia in 2007) since the memorable 1-0 win over Holland in 2001 — the Bosnia victory was the second.