The Irish Football (Soccer) team at University games has players from colleges in Donegal, Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Limerick
The Irish Football (Soccer) team that played in the University games in Belgrade this past week, is an all-Ireland team – featuring from University of Ulster: Ciaran Boyd, James Costello, Mark Surgenor, Alan Teggart, as well as the following from Donegal, Dublin, Cork and Limerick Billy Brennan, John Dineen, Graham Rusk, Peter MacMahon (University College Dublin) Brian Cleary, Brendan Daly (University of Limerick) Ryan Coulter (Colaiste Ide) Gareth Harkin, Mark Forker, Oisin McMenamin (Letterkenny IT) Ciaran Forde, Michael McSweeney (University College Cork) John Mulroy (Dublin City University) Stephen Roche, David O'Sullivan,Dean Zambra (Dublin IT) Management: Kieran Harding (Irish FA), Gerard Dunne (FAI), Jimmy Cumiskey (IUFU & Trinity College Dublin).
Last week, Irish men’s first match was against South America’s Uruguay
Then on Thursday 2nd Irish men played Italy, Saturday 4th provided the final matches in the groups, when the men faced Korea. Irish Men did not make it to the Quarter Finals, and faced a 9th to 16th playoff against 3rd place team Canada from GroupB-
In the men’s opener, the Irish lost 1-0 to Urugruay, while both teams had an equal number of shots on goal – 6-6, and Ireland did put on the pressure, winning 6 corner kicks against just 1 for Uruguay, but despite the dominant Irish for parts of the match, they not break them down the South Americans. The team was IRL - Ireland [ 2 ] Zambra Dean [ 3 ] Boyd Ciaran [ 4 ] Surgenor Mark [ 7 ] Rusk Graham (-74') [ 8 ] Harkin Gareth [ 9 ] Mulroy John (-93') [ 10 ] Costello James (-57') [ 13 ] Cleary Brian [ 15 ] Roche Stephen (-74') [ 20 ] Forker Mark [ 16 ] Brennan Billy (GK)
Subs used: [ 1 ] Coulter Ryan (GK) [ 5 ] Forde Ciaran (+93') [ 6 ] Dineen John (+74') [ 11 ] O'sullvian David (+57', -) [ 14 ] Mcmenamin Oisin (+74')
Yellow: Boyd Ciaran (IRL) 44', Roche Stephen (IRL) 64'
Against Italy on Thursday 2nd, it was an even enough match 11 shots on target against 9. Italy scored after 21 minutes. Peter McMahon became the first Irish scorer of the Games, when he equalised in the 57th Minute. But Italian Lolaico responded with another goal on 63 minutes and held out the Irish fight to the end. Irish lost 1-2 to Italy. Mark Forker received a yellow card in the 58th minute. Kieran Harding is the Irish manager (Coach),
Against South Korea, expecting a victory, the Irish lost 0-1, with Lee Jae Min scoring on 64 minutes, to leave Irish bottom of the group with 3 losses. Coming 4th in the group the Irish today faced a classification (R2) match against
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In the Playoff today – the Irish lost for the 4th time in a row, this time against Canada, 0-1.
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