Womens' Football

[CollegeTillIDie]

The best local ladies team I've seen were the Eureka College (Kells) schools team in the early 1990s. They had everthing, pace, skill, tactical awareness and were also physically strong. Maybe womens footie is not up to mens - can still be enjoyable to watch.

I've seen some womens teams that would outplay quite a few mens teams and physically would be well able to kick the $h!te out of them as well. My niece looks like a model and even when I was able to play, one day she left me with a seven inch gash down the side of my right leg and that was onlya kickabout in the back lawn!!!
Dirty little so-and-so used to do the same in womens games as well. She made Dermot Keely look like Kenneth Williams.

Eureka Kells suffer from that great plague that befalls the nation... bogball itis
nearly all of their players drift to cannibalism I mean Gaelic football

[CollegeTillIDie]

Sirhamish

Would you believe that Women's football is a particular interest of mine?
I once had the pleasure of meeting Birgit Prinz. And I think as strikers go and as women players go she would probably be physically able to stand up to the rigours of men's football given her height and dimensions etc.
86 International goals in around 130 International Appearances... not bad whatever you think of the standard.
Which reminds me The Republic of Ireland's record goalscorer in International football is Olivia O'Toole who has scored around 40 international goals for her country.... male international strikers please note ......

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Sirhamish

Would you believe that Women's football is a particular interest of mine?
I once had the pleasure of meeting Birgit Prinz. And I think as strikers go and as women players go she would probably be physically able to stand up to the rigours of men's football given her height and dimensions etc.
86 International goals in around 130 International Appearances... not bad whatever you think of the standard.
Which reminds me The Republic of Ireland's record goalscorer in International football is Olivia O'Toole who has scored around 40 international goals for her country.... male international strikers please note ......

I met Kristine Lilly of the US a few weeks ago, I coach kids soccer over here and she came one night to give a few tips to the young 'uns. She lives not far from me here, she was very friendly and helpful. She is closing in on a whopping 300 caps and has scored over a hundred goals. Womens soccer is certainly a big deal over here and up until the last year or two got a lot more coverage in the media than the mens. That does not equate it to being more popular than the mens but it just that the media love the Mia Hamms, Brandy Chaistains etc. I went to the opening cermony of the 1999 Womens World Cup at Giants Stadium and it was sold out. The professional league only lasted a few years here though because well men don't have the patience to watch womens soccer on a constant basis and women on average are not as avid followers of sport. Plus the WUSA did not team up with MLS who had already broken new ground in the sport here a few years earlier which really was a major downfall at the time.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Ok appropos of nothing but still on theme is a list of el clubs which either have Women's teams or are associated with Women's teams:

ATHLONE TOWN..... Athlone Town took over successful women's club Bealnamulla in the early part of this current Millenium. They play in the Midlands Ladies League which runs through the winter.

BRAY WANDERERS... Took over a club originally called Rockford. Play in Dublin Women's Soccer League Premier A Division

COBH RAMBLERS... Play in the Cork Ladies League.. Cork City are conspicuous by their absence however.

DUBLIN CITY... Ronan Seery's club has a women's team fully integrated into the set up currently in D.W.S.L. Premier A Division

DUNDALK... Are associated with the best ladies team in the town Dundalk City Ladies who wear the same colours however that and the fact the ladies play in Eamon Hiney Park is where the links begin and end.


FINN HARPS.... Finn Valley Harps Ladies team are associated with the club in a loose way. The proposed new stadium in Stranorlar is allegedly also going to house the Finn Valley Athletics team and other associated teams.


LONGFORD TOWN... Another member of the Midlands Ladies League

ST.PATRICK'S ATHLETIC... Once had two ladies teams at Adult level one of whom won the Premier Division in the D.W.S.L. back in 1997. They then folded in 2000. But Underage teams have come up through the ranks since then and they will soon have adult teams playing again.

SHAMROCK ROVERS... Taken over by The Hoops in 1996, Rovers won 6 W.F.A.I. Cups in a Row between 1996 and 2001, they also won 7 titles in 8 seasons between 1995 and 2002. First Irish women's team to play in the Women's U.E.F.A. Cup in 2002. Currently mid table in the D.W.S.L. Premier Division and for the first time have underage teams.


UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN...Operated as a purely Colleges team up to 2001 fielded their first D.W.S.L. side in 2002 and were rewarded with their first W.F.A.I. Senior Cup title. Have since won two more Cups and won the Premier Division title in 2003 and 2004. Have played in the Women's U.E.F.A Cup in 2003 and 2004 and soon to do so again.


WATERFORD UNITED... not formally linked to a women's team but the only Women's adult team in Waterford called Benfica wear Blue too. Members of the D.W.S.L. Premier Division they have in the past chalked up 4 W.F.A.I. Cup victories.


Bohs and Shels both used to field Women's teams.