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Might be the future if football and hurling kick off around the world. Remember that most soccer clubs are only about 100 years old, team sports is reveletly only a new thing.
Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 664 - 16/08/2019 10:23:19 2226285 Link 0 |
Yeah, the men's champions enter the All-Ireland junior series. This year Berlin GAA won the 15s championship so they will be representing Europe. Euro sides have never won a game (though Amsterdam have come close on a couple of occasions) so hopefully the Berliners can give a good account of themselves. Yeah, it does involve a lot of commitment. A couple of years back I travelled 17,000 km to play football and hurling in co. Europe. There's also a strong social element to the games, with a post-tournament dinner and scoops involving all the clubs. Moscow GAA play in Scandinavia I believe, very hard for them given the visa situation with the EU. The club in Vienna play their tournaments at a soccer stadium, home to a second division Bundesliga side. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf-Tonn-Stadion However, a lot of clubs will play on rugby pitches as you suggest. There are a lot of twinning initiatives going on between European clubs and other GAA clubs, mostly in Ireland I think, but I don't see any reason why it can't involve other international sides. Just drop whatever club in whichever city a line about organizing a friendly and they're usually fairly obliging. I wouldn't expect any financial contribution from their end, though, other than perhaps hosting people to crash in their houses or whatever. A few of us go over to play handball once per year in a London venue (Westway, near the Grenfell Tower) so there's already the beginning of something there regarding London. I certainly wouldn't balk at a weekend away there ;) Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 16/08/2019 11:47:51 2226338 Link 0 |
Galicia and Brittany are success stories, think the former has a 16 team league that started less than a decade ago, almost entirely native in composition. Brittany is a bit longer established but likewise heavily non-Irish. Liffré from Brittany won the Euro intermediate title last year and I was very impressed with them. The French national team has also done well in the World Games held so far. I reckon it's all the good food and wine, those fellas tend to be fitter than the Irish lads ;) Best story from the Euro scene is Darmstadt GAA though, a bunch of university students from Germany who took up hurling and field full sides several times per year. They have even invented a new hybrid game pitting hurlers against lacrosse players ("hurlacross"). Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 16/08/2019 11:54:40 2226341 Link 1 |
galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2513 - 22/09/2019 08:00:35 2238177 Link 0 |
galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2513 - 22/09/2019 08:00:35 2238178 Link 0 |