DAY 1 ,
The Lee Strand Sponsored Kerry Schoolboys League U-15s got their 2015 Galway Cup campaign off to a fine start yesterday. In their first game they drew 1-1 against Ipswich Town FC. A fine defensive effort from a back four that had three Park players, Sean Carmody, Dylan Casey and Thomas Burke involved set the platform for a superb team performance. Having led for most of the game and creating by far the most chances Kerry were very unlucky to be pegged back with literally the last kick of the game. Park FCs Michael Slattery scored Kerry’s goal. Other Park players involved in the game were Michael O’Gara, Niall Sertutxa and Gearoid Fitzgerald.
In their second game the Kerry boys defeated tournament hosts Salthill Devon 2-0. Michael Slattery and Michael O’Gara from Park FC scored the goals in a more comfortable victory than the score line would suggest. Dan Goggin from Park FC also featured in this game.
Ipswich defeated Ballymoor FC from Derry 5-0 which leaves them top of the group on goal difference from Kerry.
Kerry play Ballymoor FC on Wednesday ( Day 2), in their final group game at 1.00pm.
Day 2 ,
The Lee Strand sponsored Kerry Schoolboys League U-15 team have qualified for the Galway Cup semi finals having topped their group which also contained teams from Ipswich Town, host club Salthill Devon and Ballymoor from Derry.
They won their final group game yesterday 8-1 against Ballymoor. Scorers on the day were Michael Slattery 5, Sean Carmody 1(pen), Dan Goggin 1 (all Park FC players) and Dillon Robinson 1 (Tralee Dynamos). Also involved from the Park were Thomas Burke, Dylan Casey, Michael O’Gara, Gearoid Fitzgerald and Niall Sertutxa.
They play Cavan/Monaghan today Friday 7th at 11.50am for a place in the final.
DAY 3 ,
The Lee Strand Sponsored Kerry Schoolboys U-15 team today qualified for the Galway Cup final with a 6-5 win on penalties after the game finished 0-0 in normal time. Darragh Louth, Dylan Casey, Deividas Uosis, Kevin Williams, Michael Slattery and Dillon Robinson all converted for Kerry who had the best chances in normal time. In fact Robert Osborne in the Kerry goal didn’t have a shot to save.
They now play Edenderry FC in the final on Saturday (tomorrow) at 1.15pm. Edenderry have only conceded one goal to date in the competition, to Finn Harps, and will be difficult opposition for the Kerry lads.
DAY 4,
Galway Cup U-15 Final
Kerry 3 Edenderry Town FC 0
A fine performance saw Kerry end up as Galway Cup U-15 champions. Having played against a huge breeze in the first half and going in level they really turned on the style in the second period to run out easy winners. Two goals from pre rehearsed corners and a fantastic individual goal sealed the victory. The first corner whipped in to the near post by Darragh Louth was met by Michael Slattery who drove an unstoppable shot to the net. Minutes later Louth delivered another corner to the head of Kevin Williams whose flick on was met by Sean Carmody to put Kerry two up. Michael Slattery sealed the deal when he took a throw in from Thomas Burke, beat three players down the left and smashed a left leg pile driver past a helpless Edenderry keeper.
> A deserved win for an outstanding bunch of young men. They conceded only one goal from play in the whole tournament while scoring 14. Michael Slattery scored 9, Sean Carmody 2, Dillon Robinson 1, Michael O’Gara 1 and Dan Goggin 1.
Squad: Robert Osborne (Killarney Celtic), Kevin Williams (Tralee Dynamos), Gearoid Fitzgerald (St Brendan’s Park) , Dylan Casey (St Brendan’s Park) , Sean Carmody (St. Brendan’s Park) , Sean Keane (Listowel Celtic), Michael O’Gara (St Brendan’s Park) , David O’Connor (Tralee Dynamos), Michael Slattery (St Brendan’s Park) , Dillon Robinson (Tralee Dynamos), Dan Goggin (St Brendan’s Park) , Ben Cooney (Castleisland FC), Darragh Louth (Tralee Dynamos), Thomas Burke (St Brendan’s Park) , Deividas Uosis (Camp FC), Niall Sertutxa (St Brendan’s Park) and Brian O’Regan (Fenit Samphires).
Manager, Pat Carmody (St Brendan’s Park) and Assistant Manager Ken O’Connor (Tralee Dynamos).
Chris Rogers was a major part of the back room team at the tournament, Mark Fitzgerald gave up his time to do two outstanding coaching sessions with the lads including those corners and Danny Diggins was another to help out with the coaching.
Thank you to Paddy Osborne for giving up his time to ref our challenge matches and providing constant encouragement and Liam Goggin for always being ready to throw his shoulder to the wheel.
Thank you to everyone, parents, friends, supporters, Brendan Hogan and the Kerry Schoolboys delegation (especially Bridget and Rebecca) at the tournament and those already mentioned for their support throughout.
