Ex GAA Player Set to Win Euro2008 Medal

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   Dont know if anybody knows this but one of the players who could appear in the Euro 2008 final has won an all Ireland schools medal for feckin Meath, wonder if he has that with his champions league winners medal.

Guess the wikipedia link below has given the game away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xabi_Alonso

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Tash Kent Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Ray Houghton Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Location: Montserrat Status: Offline Points: 3334	Topic: Ex GAA Player Set to Win Euro2008 Medal Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 1:04pm
	Dont know if anybody knows this but one of the players who could appear in the Euro 2008 final has won an all Ireland schools medal for feckin Meath, wonder if he has that with his champions league winners medal. Guess the wikipedia link below has given the game away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xabi_Alonso
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The Count Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Paul McGrath Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 17177	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 1:13pm
	thats a fantastic pub question Tash, will try that out later


billybob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Jack Charlton Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 7179	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 1:25pm
	Excellent piece of trivia...well found
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Tash Kent Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Ray Houghton Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Location: Montserrat Status: Offline Points: 3334	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 1:26pm
	Yeah it�s a good one that Count, think people will struggle to answer that one, pity its not a team with loads of ex GAA players playing in green getting the medal.
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Bob Hoskins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Status: Offline Points: 20175	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 2:26pm
	If Ireland were playing Spain in the final he prob be still the only one with the GAA medal
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billybob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Jack Charlton Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 7179	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 2:28pm
	Shane Long win one underage aswell??
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stiofain Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Liam Brady Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Location: Brunei Darussalam Status: Offline Points: 2519	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 6:19pm
	is this for real? fantastic piece of trivia if true! Edited by stiofain - 27 Jun 2008 at 6:28pm
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The GerK Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Razor you wanna pint?...2 minutes later Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Status: Offline Points: 20537	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 7:41pm
	This has come up a few times in different newspapers I'm not sure if he actually won a medal, but he certainly played GAA. I think it was only a game or two though when he was here as an exchange student

Donal Cullen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Jack Charlton Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 5784	Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 10:55pm
	Excellent piece of info. Just the thought of him going for the point in the final has got me all excited and I don't even like GAA.
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The Count Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Paul McGrath Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: Romania Status: Offline Points: 17177	Posted: 28 Jun 2008 at 5:18am
	remember he was interviewed before by irish telly for something and he was telling him what words he learned when he was here and he was going on about boggers and knackers


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	Yeah i seen that interview but forgot about it. Edited by McGoldrick2284 - 28 Jun 2008 at 5:38am
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Gary McKay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Roy Keane Yo Adrian Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 13816	Posted: 29 Jun 2008 at 1:09pm
	Hector also interviewed Xabi and gave him a Meath jersey to which Alonso proceeded to play with a gaa ball. The guy who teaches Liverpool's foreign players to speak English is from Wicklow and he asked the players (excluding Alonso) if they knew any words of English. One player (probably Garcia or Nunez) replied - "Tesco carpark, Ballybrack"
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seaniemac Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Jack Charlton Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 6245	Posted: 29 Jun 2008 at 1:17pm
	Alonso was in Kells as an exchange student for a summer I think. He only went to a few Meath games in Croker that summer, don't think he played for Meath......he isn't that much of a pr1ck!!