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  • 19-06-2008 2:04am
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    Gavin "shels"
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    ...win a Champions League medal and an All-Ireland GAA medal?

    No cheating.;)


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    Dodge
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    None. Xabi Alonso certainly didn't.


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    Xavi6
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    Champions League or European Cup?

    Senior medal or does minor count?


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    Mossin
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    I'm gonna make a stab at Martin O'Neill


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    hamsterboy
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    Beckenbaur.
    His dad was an ambassador or something and he played in a youths final.
    Or so the story goes

    HB


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    eagle eye
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    Denis Irwin


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    Gavin "shels"
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    Dodge wrote: »
    None. Xabi Alonso certainly didn't.

    I'll think you find he won an All-Ireland schools medal and won a Champions League medal with Liverpool in 2005.

    So the answer was Xavi Alonso.


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    javaboy
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    eagle eye wrote: »
    Denis Irwin

    AFAIK this is right. I think he won a minor hurling All Ireland.


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    molby14
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    Gavin shels wrote: »
    I'll think you find he won an All-Ireland schools medal and won a Champions League medal with Liverpool in 2005.

    So the answer was Xavi Alonso.

    i think you will find he did not.
    1 he did not go to school in ireland
    2 it was a small meath club cup he won( a mid summer gig)
    3 them schools finals are over long before he came to ireland for his summer stay
    4 if he had got an allireland medal it would be flogged to death in the irish media have you ever seen it?


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    javaboy
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    Gavin shels wrote: »
    I'll think you find he won an All-Ireland schools medal and won a Champions League medal with Liverpool in 2005.

    So the answer was Xavi Alonso.

    He didn't win an All Ireland and if Josie "You're the Divil" Mourinho is to be believed, he didn't even win a Champions League medal. :D


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    Dodge
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    http://en.uefa.com/magazine/news/Kind=1024/newsId=309862.html
    Meanwhile, Liverpool FC's Spanish midfield player Xabi Alonso has revealed a love of the vaguely savage Irish sport of Gaelic football. Alonso spent time in the Irish town of Kells as a 15-year-old where he was exposed to the game. "I played Gaelic football with some of the local boys. It was very different, very physical," he recalled. "The players should wear crash helmets."

    Doesn't sound like an All Ireland winner


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