I've been tracking his appearances on Irish Abroad since he moved to Portugal: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Play...playerID=55195
Scored his first goal tonight in the cup. (Thanks to Greenscene again - in the comments of the continental post - http://greenscene.me/2010/11/contine...vember-update/ )
Interview with Amond on portugoal.net: http://www.portugoal.net/index.php/m...an-in-portugal
You can see his goal here:
http://videos.sapo.pt/z60gr63uqZUHiNSM1PSa
apparently, congratulations are in order: http://www.joe.ie/women/claire-tully...pring-007260-1
Regular readers of this column will know my husband-to-be has recently flown the nest and is living in Portugal on his own while I am home doing a few bits and pieces.
Or not...
http://www.claire-tully.com/blog/
Good article about Padraig in today's Indo.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...l-2465708.html
He has a twitter account too: http://twitter.com/#!/padraigamond21
Thanks for the link Gastric. I'm going to check out his match today against FC Porto, it's streaming on bet365.
He's just come on against Porto with 10 minutes to play.
EDIT: Didn't really get up to much. Porto won a penalty shortly after he came on, which they scored, before adding another late on.
Had the penalty not occurred his side might have had a chance as they had been pushing for some time, but their main striker (Mario Rondón)'s finishing was absolutely atrocious. He got into great positions all game and just looked completely impotent when the ball came to him in front of goal.
If Rondon is his main competition there, Amond will be starting in no time.
Last edited by irishfan86; 19/12/2010 at 9:15 PM.
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2-1 win away to Braga means Pacos Ferreira are up to 5th in the league as of this weekend, although, in keeping with the lopsided nature of the Portuguese league, they're 27 points behind Porto (Pl 20, W 18, Dr 2, L 0!!) and 16 behind Benfica.
Don't really know how Amond is getting on there - rarely plays for the first team I think.
He's a regular in the matchday squad, and has been introduced in the last three games in a row, but before that he hadn't played a minute of football since early December. Stopped a shot on the line at the weekend, when Pacos were down to ten men, to get them the win. Only one start, in the Portuguese League Cup in November, when he also scored his only goal so far this season
One of the members of ybig.ie has been tracking his progress for me, you can see his data here: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Play...playerID=55195
Just follow his twitter, gives a minute by minute analysis every time he comes on.
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LOI section on balls.ie - http://balls.ie/league-of-ireland/
http://www.soccerway.com/matches/201...rreira/960318/
A good site to track players etc
sounds like a very level-headed fella. Good, well written article too. Hopefully he gets a decent run of games before the season ends.
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Nice interview with Padraig here. Really enjoying his experience out in Portugal (apart from the hot weather!). They got to the League Cup Final last year though they lost. Has another 2 years left on his contract, still only 23. Has picked up the Portugese reasonably well, can understand it better than he can speak it. Looks as though the manager is a great support and has expressed his confidence in Padraig being a part of his plans. Will be interesting to see how his second season goes, it will be important now to try and bed himself in to the side following his settling in period.
Played Minor for Carlow hurlers too!!
pod-v-09061152m45ssportatseven.mp3-pid0-3165456.mp3 (28mins - 40mins)
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
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