DUNDALK FC CLUB DIRECTORY Honorary Club President Des Casey DFC MAGAZINE: ISSUE 03 Chairman Bill Hulsizer Board Bill Hulsizer, James Baboulas, David Samhat, Fred Spencer and Des 03: CONTENTS Dunleavy Sporting Director Jim Magilton Secretary Padraig McGowan 04: OPENING SHOT Finance Officer Elaine Duffy Stadium Manager Aaron Lawless 06: COACHES CORNER Office Manager Ailish Kelly Media Officer Gavin McLaughlin Community Officer Liam Burns 08: POST-MATCH TALK Ground Staff John Moore, David Caldwell, Jimmy Fisher and Cyril Moore Commercial Manager Ronan Shields 09: DERBY FOR SONIA Marketing Consultant Paddy Casey Player Liaison Officer Des Dunleavy Press Officer Darren Crawley 11: PLAYED FOR BOTH Club Ambassadors Paul Brown and Andy Connolly Event Controller Regina O’Hare 12: WELCOME ST PAT’S Bar Manager Kevin Carthy Office Admin Karen Travers 18: OLE MIDTSKOGEN DUNDALK FC TEAM MANAGEMENT Team Manager Shane Keegan 22: CENTRE SPREAD Coach Filippo Giovagnoli Coach Giuseppe Rossi Goalkeeping Coach Graham Byas 24: BRIAN GARTLAND S&C Coach Graham Norton Academy Manager Stephen McDonnell 26: RETRO: MICKEY FOX Doctor Dr Dualtach MacColgáin Physiotherapists Danny Miller and David Murphy 30: RETRO: PROGRAMMES Sports Science Lorcan Mason Video Analyst Dominic Corrigan Kit Manager Noel Walsh 32: CLUB PARTNERS DUNDALK FC MAGAZINE Editors Gavin McLaughlin and Paul 35: DUNDALK FC APP Dunne Contributors David Farrelly, Tom O’Connor, Sean De Loughry, Martyn 38: PLAYER SPONSORS Hindley, Padraig McGowan, Darren Crawley, Colm Murphy, Jim Murphy (RIP) Photography Sportsfile, Ciaran Culligan, 40: THE NUMBERS GAME Mick Slevin (RIP) Artwork Shane Doyle Thanks to Ray McManus, Stephen 42: 2021 STATISTICS McCarthy (Sportsfile) Programme of the Year 2008 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 44: THE SPECTATOR 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2019 46: THE QUIZ Note: The views expressed in this magazine are those of the individual contributors and are not necessarily 48: TEAMS & OFFICIALS shared by Dundalk FC...especially The Spectator! ©2021 Dundalk FC DFC MAGAZINE | 3 OPENING SHOT Dundalk fans try and get a better view of the 1987 FAI Cup final with Shamrock Rovers at Dalymount Park. Picture: Kevin McArdle (RIP) 4 | DFC MAGAZINE Dundalk v St Patrick’s Athletic | Saturday April 17th 2021 DFC MAGAZINE | 5 COACHES CORNER GIUSEPPE ROSSI t Patrick’s Athletic about what happened last Finally, I am delighted to have are a team that have weekend but it was quite simple. been accepted on the FAI’s A impressed us a lot. The players were here to recover licence course which starts in They have had a on Sunday morning and the June. My education for the UEFA really good start to coaching staff were here to work. B licence was in Italy and my the season but that is not a That shows how much we want to education for the USSF A and B Ssurprise to me because they work more to improve things and it was in America, so it is great to had a really solid team and they shows that we are a unit. learn different cultures. It keeps brought in some new players From the outside, people don’t your mind open and I am looking with good experience who have have the right picture of what’s forward to learning a lot. In given them a step-up from last happening inside. The players football, what is good now might year. are conscious that we are in a big not be good in one year so it is One of the players they brought moment and that we need to be important to keep learning. I love in for experience was John better, but, like I said, the morale is the challenge and I am looking Mountney. We know John well, high and they are really supportive forward to getting started. he is really professional and of each other and the coaching really focussed and players like staff. This is the really important Enjoy the game, him are important if St Pat’s are thing and I think this will make the Giuseppe Rossi going to achieve what they want to difference. achieve. Of course, it is normal that They play with lots of energy, people will criticise the coaching they are really organised, and you staff and the players because can see their plan and how their at the end, you have to bring team is structured. They take a results, but the performances good approach to every game, have not been as poor as some which I like. people have been trying to make For us, this is a crucial game. We it look. The players are still getting have no more time to make any to know and understand each more mistakes and we must feel other. We had so many injuries in this pressure because the reality pre-season which, in my opinion, is, we are almost bottom of the affected our start and little details league. We can’t stay there any during the first four games also longer. We have to approach the affected our results. Yes, we have game like there is no tomorrow to do better but we have had a and we have to show it to St Pat’s good week of work and we just right from the first second. need to click which will, hopefully, The morale in the team is high, come on Saturday. which is important, and the players all know how important this game is for us to get our season started. If we win, it can start us on a run. This team just needs a little click. We have a great group of players and we just need them to come through this moment. There was lots of speculation 6 | DFC MAGAZINE Dundalk v St Patrick’s Athletic | Saturday April 17th 2021 DFC MAGAZINE | 7 DFC IN THE COMMUNITY DERBY FOR SONIA Andy Boyle in action against Bohemians undalk centre-back Andy from now on. Boyle has called on the senior “I know words are cheap but, players at Oriel Park to lead performance-wise, we were a bit better by example and put a halt to against Bohs. Going forward it doesn’t the club’s disappointing start to the need to be pretty, we just need to win. It might be an ugly win, but that’s what will Dseason. get us going.” Last week’s 1-0 loss to Bohemians at Georgie Kelly’s winning penalty means Oriel Park means the Lilywhites have that Dundalk have only managed to picked up just one point from their undalk FC is aiming to Derby against Drogheda United 8,000 virtual tickets for the match keep a clean sheet in two of their past opening four games. The previous, break the League of on April 24th. Interestingly, their against the Drogs, which would 20 matches and Boyle said that was and only occasion, the club recorded Ireland attendance record opponents won the Men’s FAI Cup raise an incredible €40,000 for her. a shocking statistic for a side with title DUNDALK FC 0-1 BOHEMIANS 0-1 FC DUNDALK such a poor start to a Premier Division - virtually - in order to the same year as Sonia’s goal Sonia’s story has really touched ambitions. campaign came in 1998/99, a campaign raise funds for life-changing clinched the Ladies’ final. our hearts at the club and we are “We pride ourselves on clean sheets The Lilywhites are aiming to honoured to do our bit for her which saw the Lilywhites relegated for Dcancer treatment for a former as defenders and we’re not doing that at smash the League of Ireland campaign.” the first time in their history. player. the minute,” he said. attendance record - which stands “As teammates and friends of With four SSE Airtricity League titles Sonia Hoey, who scored the “I can’t think of too many that we have at 7,522 for the club’s tie at Tallaght Sonia, we would ask everyone, to his name, Boyle knows Dundalk’s winner for Dundalk City in the conceded where you think ‘that was Stadium against Shamrock Rovers from the bottom of our hearts to results have been nowhere near good Women’s FAI Cup final in 2005, a great goal’. When you keep clean last season - by selling virtual please support #DerbyforSonia enough and he said it was imperative was diagnosed with stage three sheets you can’t lose the game and it match tickets for the first SSE and give an amazing person the that players like himself, Chris Shields, cervical cancer in February 2019. gives you a base to work on so that’s Airtricity League Louth Derby since opportunity to receive life-changing Patrick McEleney and Patrick Hoban She had been in remission for hurting us as defenders.” 2017. treatment in Mexico,” said Tara stood up to be counted. almost a year when the cancer “We probably need a goal to go in or “We’re delighted to launch this Nevin, captain of the 2005 cup- “As a group, we all have to do it, but I returned. maybe get an early goal,” he added. #DerbyForSonia campaign to raise winning team. think the dependency is on the likes of Her family recently established a “That would lift the shackles off a bit and as many funds as possible for “Individually we are one drop. us,” he said. “We need to instil exactly #SaveOurSonia campaign to raise would get us going and give us the bit of her treatment,” said Dundalk FC Together we are an ocean. C’mon what Dundalk Football Club is about vital funds for treatment in Mexico, confidence we need.