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It all began in Ireland for WC winning scorer Mario Goetze.

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  • #2
    Paully D
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    I'm admittedly too lazy to check myself, but does anyone know what the players of both of those squads ended up?

    From an Irish perspective, John Egan was at Sunderland for a few years without ever making a first team appearance and now plays for Gillingham. I'm sure a few play in the League of Ireland, Murray for one?

    As for the Germans, ter Stegen is with Barcelona and Gotze speaks for himself, but I wouldn't be familiar with many others.


  • #3
    Corholio
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    Paully D wrote: »
    I'm admittedly too lazy to check myself, but does anyone know what the players of both of those squads ended up?

    From an Irish perspective, John Egan was at Sunderland for a few years without ever making a first team appearance and now plays for Gillingham. I'm sure a few play in the League of Ireland, Murray for one?

    As for the Germans, ter Stegen is with Barcelona and Gotze speaks for himself, but I wouldn't be familiar with many others.

    Michael Rafter plays down here with Cork City, injured for the season and the Robert Benson I presume is Robbie Benson who now plays with UCD. I think the Ryan Connolly there is with Sligo now as well.


  • #4
    Amirani
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    In the past couple of weeks, 1 has won a World Cup medal while the other has been released by Waterford United in the First Division (Shane Murray).

    INPHO_00276499.jpg


  • #5
    SantryRed
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    Played football either with or against all of those Irish lads.

    Not many made it across the water at all, and the majority that did are back now.


  • #6
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    How does playing twice here equate to 'it all beginning for him in Ireland'?


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  • #7
    Iused2likebusts
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    Paully D wrote: »
    I'm admittedly too lazy to check myself, but does anyone know what the players of both of those squads ended up?

    From an Irish perspective, John Egan was at Sunderland for a few years without ever making a first team appearance and now plays for Gillingham. I'm sure a few play in the League of Ireland, Murray for one?

    As for the Germans, ter Stegen is with Barcelona and Gotze speaks for himself, but I wouldn't be familiar with many others.

    Aaron mccarey played for monaghon went to wolves think he is out on loan from them, he was called into the ireland squad at one stage. Sean stewart played a few games for pats think he plays LSL now. Sean skelly played or plays for longford I think. Just goes to show how hard it is to make the breakthrough all these lads at u16 were getting trials left, right and centre and were the best players at their age group. Most of them now seem to be struggling to make a living from the game and none are household names( from the irish side)


  • #8
    SantryRed
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    Iused2likebusts wrote: »
    Aaron mccarey played for monaghon went to wolves think he is out on loan from them, he was called into the ireland squad at one stage. Sean stewart played a few games for pats think he plays LSL now. Sean skelly played or plays for longford I think. Just goes to show how hard it is to make the breakthrough all these lads at u16 were getting trials left, right and centre and were the best players at their age group. Most of them now seem to be struggling to make a living from the game and none are household names( from the irish side)

    Mark O'Brien is still the most promising of the lot. He's been an unbelievable footballer since he was 11/12, but has never, ever had any luck with injuries. Afaik he is still playing for Derby County, but had a very serious heart condition a few years ago which left him out of action for a while. Really hope he makes it because he was incredibly talented whilst young and even when he first went to Derby. Pretty sure he made his debut at 16 or 17 in the last game of the season against Watford 5 years ago!

    EDIT: Actually after looking at that line up, I'm pretty sure that's just a home grown team for Ireland with 1 or 2 lads from England. You're missing the likes of Robbie Brady and Jeff Hendrick to name two from that age group.


  • #9
    NIMAN
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    Check out the HUMOUR thread, a quote from Twitter last night from some Irish guy who must have played in one of these games, and he was saying something along the lines of "I played against Mario a few years back, now sitting watching him win a WC Final, while I eat a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch".


  • #10
    catallus
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    "while I eat a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch."

    It's not all bad, so. They're not bad, as taytos go.


  • #11
    IrishIrish
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    Diego Simeone wrote: »
    In the past couple of weeks, 1 has won a World Cup medal while the other has been released by Waterford United in the First Division (Shane Murray).

    INPHO_00276499.jpg


    Shane was at Sheff United for a few years and played vs Man Utd in the final of the Milk cup a few years ago. Was live on BBC and was probably the best player on the pitch, or at least one of them. I think he was also captain for one of the Ireland youth teams. He broke his leg while at Sheff Utd at an important stage in his development and never really came back from it.


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  • #12
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,547 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    I also liked Karl Sheppard's tweet the other day: https://twitter.com/karlsheppard9/status/488468676447055873
    Karl Sheppard wrote:
    Shkodran Mustafi got released shortly after me at Everton and won a World Cup today.. I won a Leinster senior cup medal last season....:o


  • #13
    Mars Bar
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    Corholio wrote: »
    Michael Rafter plays down here with Cork City, injured for the season and the Robert Benson I presume is Robbie Benson who now plays with UCD. I think the Ryan Connolly there is with Sligo now as well.

    I think that Ryan connolly is passing for Galway fc now


  • #14
    Mars Bar
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    Check out the HUMOUR thread, a quote from Twitter last night from some Irish guy who must have played in one of these games, and he was saying something along the lines of "I played against Mario a few years back, now sitting watching him win a WC Final, while I eat a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch".

    That was Conor Devlin. Played in the Manchester United academy for years before being released and moving back to northern ireland


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