Quote“Every player wants to play international soccer,” said Meara. “But for me, I’ll cross that bridge when that comes.”
Evidently, Meara does not consider playing for Ireland "international soccer".
Based solely on the footage posted above, they can keep him,,, looks bang average
“Every player wants to play international soccer,” said Meara. “But for me, I’ll cross that bridge when that comes.”
Evidently, Meara does not consider playing for Ireland "international soccer".
End Apartheid Now! One Team in Ireland!
To be honest I haven't watched much of the Red Bulls lately so can't comment on his ability. That said, if there's one area that I feel MLS is just as good as any league around it's between the sticks.
As watchers of English football know well, North American trained goalkeepers are some of the best around.
If Meara is getting a chance to start for one of the clubs with the greatest resources in MLS at just the age of 21 it says a lot.
It's worth bearing in mind that the previous goalkeeper was Frank Rost, a German classified as a "Designated Player," so if their manager, Hans Backe, is going with Meara in the period immediately following Rost's departure I think that's also a positive.
Now for the downside: Backe is notorious for getting players to agree to put club before country. He convinced Joel Lindpere to retire from Estonia (although he did come out of retirement for the playoffs against us), and I think a lot of MLS clubs understandably want nothing to do with European call-ups given they often clash with the league's summer schedule and mess with sleep patterns, etc.
Anyway, can't hurt to have another option but with Westwood around I think we're set for quite some time in any event. Until Meara verifies his status as a "good Catholic boy" I won't hold my breath...
All stinks a bit of career progression as opposed to Irish pride to me... (though he does suggest the FAI approached him)
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
No thanks.
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Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here
From what I saw in an MLS game a few weeks ago vs Columbus, this would be accurate. ..got a lot to learn and is brave. He really does need to play a lot more club games so that we can see if there's true potential for the level we would want for him. He's at a tricky point as to whether he should come over for a U21 call-up because he really needs to consolidate his club position. (The fact that he is not being released is unusual for an mls club. The league itself has many examples of it's players putting country before club and games not being canceled, although most are full team callups. )Originally Posted by Metrostars
I have to laugh at comments such as has Robbie playing for LA had an effect on raising our profile. --- we really don't have much of an opinion of ourselves sometimes. WE are bigger than that. Lads like Meara, and there are many of them, are totally immersed and highly knowledgeable about the game. I've not read all the links in this thread, but I did read a few weeks ago that Meara has played gaa. I doubt his "Irishness" is defined by an Irish U21 camp call up. That's entirely not needed anyway (in this context) - there's gks playing in the epl, who started out with New York team and with Columbus.
I suggested it might be the case. Admittedly, I haven't a clue what sort of profile we have in the US, but. surely if it was one of any great significance, we'd have benefited a bit more from the Irish diaspora there than just one-cap-wonder Joey Lapira.
Have we had many Irish Americans play for us over the years?
He must have been watching Pat Jennings and learned the one handed save technique!! (at 1.13)
Not that I can think of.
One reason would be they are not good enough, another reason to be considered is how much they could make financially
for playing for the USA, a third would be the time zone difference and distance you would have to travel.
It's a fair trot across the Atlantic and back. Especially for those on the west coast, a 7.30pm kick off here is
a 2.30am kick off of a USA player.
So if you see Robbie nodding off during a match you will know why, mind you the time difference in Poland
for him is -9 hours so he will be kicking off at 4.30 am in his local time so by the end of the match he might
start to wake up.
MARE-uh allegedly:
http://www.newyorkredbulls.com/news/...uct-ryan-meara
So probably like Mayor-a, not mara, or meera.
Pual, the moral of this episode is never underestimate Americans' ability to find a new pronunciation for a foreign name.
Co-lin Powell FFS.
The different pronunciations isn't really surprising. The name O'Meara is from Tipperary - you can see why Americans, for instance, would hear immigrants pronouncing it the Irish way but hear it Mare-ah or Meer-ah because of the Munster accent.
never underestimate the ability of the Irish to think pronunciation should be one way, and their way only ;-)
That's because he's an a**hole...
Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.
BTW, La versus NY at the weekend should be interesting with Keane versus Meara.
"Jacques Santini...will be greeted in every dugout of the country by "one-nil, one-nil" - Clive Tyldsley, 89th minute of France-England June 13, 2004.
"Ooooohhhh Nooooooo" Bobby Robson 91st minute.
Keane hasn't travelled to Seattle for tonights game, hope he's fit for weekend
***Update*** ESPNLA Soccer writer Scott French has confirmed that Robbie Keane did not travel with the Galaxy to Seattle as well. Would be interesting if Pat Noonan is given the start tomorrow, considering his Sounders history.
What should he have done? Made dramatic dives for each routine save? He wasn't tested in that video, there's no way of knowing how good he is from it.
"If you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime,"
“Crikey, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea,"
Interesting on the pronunciation side of things, comes up with McClean too. I don't think that it's that his name is to be pronounced McClane, it's just that that's how McClean sounds in a Derry accent? Then again, that's all that different pronunciations are anyway, regional differences. Anyway as a rule, however someone pronounces their name is how everyone else should say it too - Tim Cahill.
sorry for thinking aloud!
"If you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime,"
“Crikey, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea,"
Nothing to do with the accent. The Derry accent can distinguish between the "cleen" and "clane" sounds quite easily. I would imagine that its pronunciation as "McClane" is rooted in the pronunciation of it's Gaelic origin; Mac Gille Eathain.
Last edited by DannyInvincible; 02/05/2012 at 7:32 PM.
In Belfast people would pronounce it McClane too so it isn't down to the Derry accent! PS what is going on with this forum and a new found obsession with how names are pronounced
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