James Abankwah D Charlton (loan from Udinese) b.2004

**elatedscum** · 28/01/2022, 1:34 PM

Originally Posted by JR89

Not the only young lad that's been in Germany recently. Stephen Ireland has set up his own agency and had both Mark O'Mahony (Cork) and Luke O'Brien (Pat's) over in Germany this month too.

O’Mahony signed a pro deal a few days ago with Cork. Good player, seems like a decent lad. Natural goal scorer.

**JR89** · 02/04/2023, 12:33 PM

Abankwah made his Udinese debut today coming on in the 86th minute in a 3-0 loss to Bologna.

**tetsujin1979** · 02/04/2023, 1:40 PM

Sets a record in the process

**tetsujin1979** · 02/04/2023, 4:32 PM

Question asked on YBIG have two Irish players ever appeared in the same top flight game before?
The last top flight continental game(ie Spain, Italy, or Germany) with two Irish players I could find was a la liga game between Osasuna and Sporting Gijon in December 1988 that featured Michael Robinson and Kevin Moran
But that's the only site with the lineups I could find, so open to correction on it
https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/p/p.php?id=17156

**Kingdom** · 02/04/2023, 4:38 PM

Did Harte and Finnan timelines cross at Levante & Espanyol?

**tetsujin1979** · 02/04/2023, 4:49 PM

No, Harte returned to England in 2007 to play for Sunderland, Finnan went to Espanyol in 2008

**pineapple stu** · 02/04/2023, 4:58 PM

Moran and Aldridge were in La Liga at the same time; did they meet?

Ditto John Byrne and Mick McCarthy in Ligue 1.

**Razors left peg** · 02/04/2023, 5:02 PM

Did Cascarino cross paths with any Irish men in France?

**tetsujin1979** · 02/04/2023, 5:08 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Moran and Aldridge were in La Liga at the same time; did they meet?

Ditto John Byrne and Mick McCarthy in Ligue 1.

according to Wikipedia, le Havre were not in ligue 1 in the 1989-90 season when Mick was at Lyon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989...nch_Division_1

Aldridge and Moran were in la Liga at the same time for only one season, 1989-90, but only Aldridge played in the two games between Real Sociedad and Sporting Gijon that season

It's the same site with the lineups again, so it's tough to verify
https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/p/p.php?id=17545
https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/p/p.php?id=17735

**tetsujin1979** · 02/04/2023, 5:14 PM

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Did Cascarino cross paths with any Irish men in France?

Going by Wikipedia, he was the only Irish player in Ligue 1 at that time
https://tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligu...istesi#Irlanda

That page is in Turkish, and is out of date - Messi isn't on it!. Unfortunately, the English language version is completely empty
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...igue_1_players

**Trequartista20** · 04/04/2023, 11:31 AM

Did Alan Mahon and Phil Babb not play any matches together at Sporting?

**Trequartista20** · 04/04/2023, 11:40 AM

Frank Stapleton and John Byrne at Le Havre in the late 80s? Or were they in the second division by that stage?

**tetsujin1979** · 04/04/2023, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Trequartista20

Did Alan Mahon and Phil Babb not play any matches together at Sporting?

They did, but I did specify that this was in the top continental leagues, ie Spanish, German or Italian

Originally Posted by Trequartista20

Frank Stapleton and John Byrne at Le Havre in the late 80s? Or were they in the second division by that stage?

Stapleton was only there for the 88-89 season, when they were in Ligue 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E...nch_Division_2

**third policeman** · 04/04/2023, 2:02 PM

Where Alan Campbell and Liam Buckley at Racing Santander at the same time. Campbell was there between 84 and 86

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_C...yed%20for%20Sh

Whilst Buckley was there between 86 and 87

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Buckley

Not clear whether their spells there crossed over but Santander were in La Liga in 1986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_de_Santander

**tetsujin1979** · 04/04/2023, 2:24 PM

looks like Campbell move to Logrones when Buckley moved to Santander: https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-42322612.html

Liam Buckley

Racing Santander (1986-1987)
One Dubliner (Buckley) replaced another (Campbell) at Santander for the 1986/87 season and ex-Rovers man Buckley, who moved to Spain after a happy two-year spell with Belgian side Waragem also adapted well to life in Spain, making his debut away to Barcelona, up against Gary Lineker and Mark Hughes who were also debutants. After one year in Spain, Buckley moved on again, to Switzerland but five goals in 35 games that season in Spain was a decent return.

**tetsujin1979** · 04/06/2023, 6:08 PM

Starting tonight for Udinese in their last game of the season

The team announcement is...different

**Trequartista20** · 04/06/2023, 6:16 PM

Great to see the progression of our young players.

**tetsujin1979** · 05/06/2023, 10:51 AM

Abankwah, Guessand, Cocetta reflect on debut joy
https://www.udinese.it/news/squad/ab...t-on-debut-joy

Abankwah: “I'm very happy to have made my full Serie A debut. I want to thank the gaffer and all my team-mates. It was a difficult game against a good team. I was very tired and Ielt cramp but I just tried to do my best."

**pineapple stu** · 05/06/2023, 10:54 AM

Has he played any football all season? I think he's been on the bench pretty much every game but not come on. Is there a reserve league or anything that he's been playing?

**CraftyToePoke** · 05/06/2023, 11:26 AM

I was watching this last night, and he was RCB in a five at the back & he did fine up to the injury on the hour, glad he's saying its cramp today as he was injured blocking a shot and he immediately sat down and signalled to the bench, he was holding his quadriceps and it didn't look great at the time. In play he had one nice reading of a deep cross which he came back out to nod away, a player has drifted in late behind the defence but he copped it & most likely stopped a goal there. He was beaten in the box once when he might have been stronger in the challenge but there was cover and it didn't come to anything. He was available for ball but not really demanding it, and he looked to play the safe ball most times, back across the defensive line rather than into midfield. He did fine, looked calm and was getting on with it. The winning goal minutes after he had to come off was a shot from the RCB area FWIW and Juve hadn't had any shots away from there while he was out there.