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rolo
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nice story published today in The Athletic about him.
He became a goalkeeper at 14 years of age, having been a striker, one of the best strikers in his age group in Cork apparently. Only switched to being a keeper when his team’s keeper decided to quit the team, and Kelleher’s dad called the coach and said why not try Caoimhin in goals. His dad claims he would never have made the call if the other keeper hadn’t quit.
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This is an issue across the board about how much kids are let out due to the perceived/real dangers. Cars are everywhere now, speeding about and its simply more dangerous because of that one element straight away. Yes, there were cars around in the 80's but think back to when U were kicking the ball on the road and look at the same road now...packed with abandoned cars on paths and everywhere. Then you have the prevalence of social media to propagate fear and paranoia and more parents keep little Johnny tucked up as a 12-year old infant, driving him to the school gate (and through it if they can) and ferrying him everywhere to arranged playdates. I'm not one for thinking it was all rosy in the garden then as it wasn't, not by a long shot and as kids then we didn't realise the hardships our elders were experiencing with work and emigration and poverty. Things are far better now across the board but by giving over our streets to cars, and our minds to fear, we are taking away from the kids what is most precious which is unorganized (by adults!), spontaneous playtime. |
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sid waddell
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I think there are two competing things at play alright The natural desire of a parent to keep their child safe, and the associated philosophy that playtime or training time for children should be heavily regulated and non-competitive But the reality is that the forming processes for footballers have always been brutal The tougher the forming process, the better the footballer it would produce I know this is cliched, but it's true - the best footballers generally were desperate to get out of the circumstances they grew up in, they saw football as a way out of that But at the same time, that forming process left so many youngsters on the scrapheap I think Luis Suarez is an example of a footballer that came through a very tough forming process and it shows in his character Maradona too obviously But our young footballers generally don't have anything like that As a parent or a coach, you want to take the adversity out of things, and you want to concentrate on forming a young, rounded human being You ant to remove the adversity But having overcome adversity is a massive advantage for a top level footballer |
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JoxerDaly
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Dont see kids playing ball on the street I grew up on either. There used to be 20 of us every day, all day, during the summer months and everywhere we went we carried a ball and could start a game anywhere, and that was only the 90s.
There is a lot less kids in the area these days I think, but maybe I just dont see them because they dont hang around the street anymore but what I will say is the area has much better facilities. There is a 5 a side all weahther pitch and the community hall was rebuilt and has a brilliant indoor pitch now . Id say this is true for most of the country tbh.
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horsebox
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It was far across the sea,
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When people compare anything to 90s Ireland you have to remember Ireland is a different world nowadays compared to the 1990s for many reasons. I wouldnt even say its an Irish thing, from my experience in Europe even in countries like Spain its not as common (I remember when I was only 13 playing football in public with some local kids in Malaga and the police were called...) What has been improved in countries like this is there needs to be specially designated places for these kids to play football, simply playing on the street just isnt a thing anymore in this part of the world. Comparing also to SA countries like Uruguay and Brazil isnt really comparable either as they are like mentioned above in a situation kind of like Ireland in the 90s where football can be used as an escape to all the crap that goes on in life whereas in Europe there are too many screens and distractions and thats before we talk about the dangers such as traffic and other things.
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amccarten313
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“And Caoimhin did well. So, there are not a lot of reasons I could mention in this moment to say he will not start against Wolves, but there is training in between and other things, he has to stay fit, we have sessions. All this kind of stuff. “But he has done enough to convince me, but he did that already months and years ago. Sometimes you have wait for the right moment and we thought the right moment came on Tuesday.” quotes from klopp on liverpools website earlier today |
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Street Football .......???
A few of us landed in the local district court for the cause....twas late sixties...different times I suppose....
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In fairness, from listening to the FAI Webinar about grassroots football the most important part his making sure the kids enjoy the game because thats the only way they can be kept in the system.
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rolo
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Starts, according to LiveScore.
Would wait for official confirmation though.
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horsebox
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He's starting.
https://matchcentre.liverpoolfc.com/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=med-match-centre-2021 Great news. Thought Klopp would have went with Adrian. |
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It was far across the sea,
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trapscat
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hopefully will get a run midweek
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Super sky must have it wrong on. Sorry
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Starts tonight even though by Klopps comments it was odds on he was going to start it’s an even bigger vote of confidence to him.
it’s the acid test that Klopp genuinely does see him as No.2 to Alisson. Hopefully he does the basics tonight now and all goes well for him. So great to see an Irish lad starting for a top team like Liverpool again.
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Massive positive from an ireland perspective, if he gets a few games for Liverpool does he then start for ireland ahead of Randolph who unlikely to play at all before March?
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Roberto Baggio
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What is Allison's injury?
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