QuoteTeam in Bray called BRAYZIL
There was also a team called LAZIO who played in Dublin, southside, had a pitch up the mountains I think. They were all Italians. They were still going about five years ago but Ive heard nothing since.
heard of a team in a rag week tournament in UL called Beercelona
Team in Bray called BRAYZIL
There was also a team called LAZIO who played in Dublin, southside, had a pitch up the mountains I think. They were all Italians. They were still going about five years ago but Ive heard nothing since.
I knew rag weeks team in Sligo RTC called:
- Mighty Morphing Power Rovers
- Sporting Lesbian
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Brilliant !!!!Originally Posted by Ash
I remember Maccabi Dublin alright, we played them in the South Dublin League. They weren't up too much. I remember we were cracking jokes about pork and such like not really understanding what we were saying - well we were only about 10-12 years old. We were losing 3-0 to them on a very wind swept Sunday morning at half time, and still beat them 5-3.
Bye bye Stan. Go off back to collecting cones you useless git.
on another note, in my younger days I played for a team in the
Athlone District Schoolboy League called "Pioneers"
My parents thought this was a great first step to a healthy alcohol
and smoke free life ... my my how disappointed they are
I always wondered if there was any connection between Verona on the
way to Blanch and Hellas Verona in Italy.
There used to be a team in the Roscommon & District League called Santa Cruz.
Dont know if they're still about
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on another note, in my younger days I played for a team in the
Athlone District Schoolboy League called "Pioneers"
My parents thought this was a great first step to a healthy alcohol
and smoke free life ... my my how disappointed they are
I always wondered if there was any connection between Verona on the
way to Blanch and Hellas Verona in Italy.
There used to be a team in the Roscommon & District League called Santa Cruz.
Dont know if they're still about
There is a team in the lower regions of the LSL called Pioneers. They have been going for over 50 years and are still supposedly TTs.
Always look on the bright side of life
Are they related to the Pioneers club which competed in the League of Ireland during the 1920s (and were once thumped 10-2 by Shams?)
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[QUOTE=drummerboyThey wouldn't play football on Sunday because of their religion and brought a case agians the league who tried to make them play a cup tie on a Sunday.[/QUOTE]
Really ?? But the Jewish Sabbath runs from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. Sunday is just a normal weekday working day over in Israel, so don't see why they wouldn't play footie then on religious grounds? Maybe they were just afraid they'd get humped...?
There's a team in the top Swedish division called Assyriska FC.
They are considered the unofficial national team of Assyria (an ancient country that straddles modern-day Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran). The Assyrians have their own ancient language, and unusually for the Middle East are a Christian people (the first nation converted to Christianity, in fact).
Their country no longer exists and they have been dispersed all over the world. The Assyrians in Sweden set-up their own team that slowly rose its way through the ranks, gaining promotion to the top Swedish division last year.
Amateur leagues and lower leagues all around the world are full of ethnic teams, because it's very, very easy to set one up. All you need is 15 male players and a bit of form filling. London has a number of different ethnic leagues, let alone teams - including a gay league - and has a successful gay team (Stonewall FC) who play at a decent amateur level alongside 'straight' teams.
There was talk about 10 years ago of the Romanian community in Ireland looking to get a team into the League of Ireland. It didn't progress very far though. I remember at the time there being a few grumbles from people about it not being right. The irony of Celtic FC-loving Ireland complaining about an immigrant community team seeking membership of a league ! You couldn't make it up....
[QUOTE=dcfcsteve]I was refeferring to YMCA not Macabbi. YMCA only played on Saturdays. They have now amalgated with Mount Merrion YMCA but now play on Sundays.
Really ?? But the Jewish Sabbath runs from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. Sunday is just a normal weekday working day over in Israel, so don't see why they wouldn't play footie then on religious grounds? Maybe they were just afraid they'd get humped...?
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verona are not italian.
there is a romanian (romstar2000 i think is the name).
and a turkish (anatolyans), deaf team (st vincents) and russian (soviet union fc) playing in the leinster football league
ive checked the vélez website, but no reference to any irishman.There is a team in Argentina called Vellez Sarsfield (Patrick Sarsfield). Any Irish connection there with...you know with the existence of an Irish ex-pat community in Buenos Aires, Che Guevara's Irish roots from his mother's side, John Browne from Mayo the founder of the Argentine Navy and a certain Bernardo O'Higgins next door in Chile.
Makes you wonder huh!
almirante brown (3rd div) is named after william brown.theres also another lower division team named after him afaik
che guevaras irish side was his fathers,they were called lynch.his fathers name was Ernesto Guevara Lynch
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as far as I know Maccabi changed their name or at least a large number of their players left and formed Parkvale FC in the late nineties which was made up of all or predominently jewish players. I played against them 4 times between 1999 and 2001 in the amatuer league before they left to go to another league. Beat them in a playoff to gain promotion to the Major Division of the Amatuer League which is about the only highlight in my glittering career (sic)!!!
They were a good team, hard but fair. Plently of ding dong battles and without trying to sterotype I did notice that there was a large number who wore spurs shirts before games which definetly helped my motivation!!!!
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founded by isaac newell from kent in englanddon't know if its truebut there is a team playing in argentina called newell's old boys. I was told it was founded by a priest from Ireland.
their rivals are Rosario Central, of which the aforementioned che guevara was a supporter....(though he preferred rugby)
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Im not sure about Velez but i read somewhere that boca juniors were formed by an irish priest and that river plate were formed by a group of english miners or something like that. I guess thats where some of the rivalry has come from. There is a large irish community living in Argentina, something like 400,000.There is a small team in Chile who have O'Higgins in their teams name (another great sligo man).And the priest who formed Celtic was from sligo too. Also Panathinaikos were formed by an irish priest which explains there green strip and the shamrock in there crest. If you ever watch Pana home games they often have the tri-colour at the games. Hasn't Ajax got some conections with the jewish community in Holland.
that was romstar western union.they played in the phoenix park. they were kciked out of the league for fighting on-pitch. the reason why i would object to them playing in the eircom league would be becasue they were an amateur team playing in a public park.you cant jsut ahave any amateur outfit looking for EL membership. there as no real campaign to get them in the el either. they simply said on the soccer show they would like to progress up the league and eventually make it into the EL sometime.a casual statement thats all
sorry for the multiple posts,its just im replying to each post as i read them!
patrick mccarthy was the irishman supposedly who founded boca.however the official history mentions simply a group of italian immigrants founded the club.
400,000 argentines are of irish descent. in the 1800s 40,000 irish emigrated to argentina.20,000 of which subsequently re-emigrated mostly to the usa.
the rivalry between boca nad river has nothing to do with irish-english rivalry.bocas chosen colors are a great story btw
o'higgins football club was named after bernardo o'higgins,son of ambrose o'higgins.bernardo was a virtual dictator in chile,was turfed out and sent inti exile in peru.
Panathinaikos have no connection to ireland.they were originally founded by a group of englishmen.they originally wore red.the shamrock is a lucky symbol in greece,thats why pao use it.they also have green brother links to Rovers ultras and rapid wien.you do see many tricolors at the pao games,the colors being the main reason i suppose.
ajax used to have minor connections to the jewish community but this has been blown out of all proportion these days.its bizarre that ajax fans have adopted the star of david as a fans logo.amsterdam had the largest group of jews in holland,so this was shown proportionately in the jewish support for ajax.the jewish thing is a cult thing for ajax.theyre not really a jewish club at all
palestino play in chile.theyre the palestinian club in the chilean league
The shamrock in Panas crest is a trifol plant (or something like that)
which grows particularly well in that region, hence they put it on the
crest (as far as I know anyway)
Nothing to do with an Irish priest or anything like that
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Sporting Lesbians is also a team that have been knocking round the UCD Superleague for years, Real-Ale Madrid had a few years in it too.
In my first season the division I played had Inter Uranus, Our lads are hard, Purple Headed Warriors, Muff Divers Utd (who chnaged their name to 69ers because there was already a team called Muff Divers in the league). Bit strange that. We were called Real Krapp, although in spite of our name we won the title, Pineapple Stu played for Theyall Betis, other classics include Hunts up Front, Real Sociopath, KKK Gothenberg, AC Slater, and If there's grass.
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Anto eile i didn't actually mean that bocas and rivers rivalry stems from boca been founded by an irishman i know that it comes from the fact that both clubs were located in the slums of Buenes Aires but then River picked up and located to the rich area of the city. This is one of the main reasons for there rivalry as there looked on as oposites in the game as boca are seen as the peoples club and river the rich mans club. I remember when mary mc aleese visited Argentina that RTE mentioned those figures which i was very surprised about, so you could be right or wrong but there is still a siseable amount of irish immigrants living in Buenes Aires.I know how they got there colours, from the swedish flag they saw on a boat.
One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter so maybe O'Higgins was a tyrant and maybe he was a liberator but he did free chile from spain. He must still have his fans out there if there willing to name clubs after him and give him an honoury role in their history.
Why don't Pana fans wave around italian flags, mexican flags or even ivoary coast flags cause the all have green in there flags. Its a bit more than a coincedence. They were unofficialy set up by an irish monk.
I remember talking to a dutch man who was a Utrecht fan but he sateted that the owners of Ajax are Jewish and so they have a few Jewish fans.
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