Ben Symes
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Yeah, um this was something that John Martin told us yesterday in the Viva Stadium that they've held seventy three.
He said seventy five, I think, was figure time then he later clarified it to the exact amount.
Um
This is because Ireland do not have a fit for purpose national training centre.
So if you go up to Abbott and people who might be listening and are familiar with it, you'll know like amazing pitches.
Like we have more pitches there than the likes of say Portugal have in their national training centre.
The problem is the dressing rooms that are there are owned by Sport Ireland.
So they are rented out by the FAI, or if everyone sees them, like you could you could go up and rent them out tomorrow, like and
And that's that, they're they're gone.
There's no uh analysis rooms, there's no team meeting rooms, there's no balcony for players' families and spectators to go up and watch these games.
Like it is not fit for purpose to hold national games.
So what has been happening is you get drawn in say a group of four and an international home that are under seventeen level
And usually one of the four teams will have a Fifth for Purpose National Training Centre and they will, you know, host games.
But this has now been happening for years where all your youngsters are going and playing underage football for Ireland and they have to go abroad.
And I'm sure it's a brilliant brilliant experience for them, but their families don't get to watch them.
Their mother and father, maybe a sibling, might go over, but your grannies and your uncles and your granddaugh like don't get to see this.
Um so it would be brilliant for that.
It would allow at the FI then to host youth international tournaments.
There is talk of an athlete village being built in Sport Island campus which would be used for the likes of, you know, if rowers are to come up or, you know, people using the gyms are going to be coming up, they can say they're
yet to be determined if footballing athletes could use that, which it then again would further allow players to come up and the FEI to host youth international games there.
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