'Thee Golden Generation'

[irishultra]

in 1988 ireland qualified for its first competition and two years later its first world cup.

I played football when the boom in people playing football had reached the age they could play..

surely with this football fanaticism(which was so high in the mid 90's) will have led to the production of some quality players within this year and perhaps the next 5. these players will be reaching 16/17/18 now, so I wonder will much pop up.

another thing I wanted to know, does anyone know if there are any youth players of immigrants making headway?

[paulie_walnuts]

Hardly.

Most of the 'golden generation' kids would be early twenties or late teens, a 16 year old wouldn't remember USA 94 for example.

[John83]

I reckon Keane and Duff are the players from the generation inspired by 1988. I'm only a couple of years younger than them and barely remember it. I remember 1990 clearly though.