David Meyler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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I'm thinking about Morocco and they've had such great success.
They won the Under-20 World Cup.
They were the semifinals of the World Cup four years ago, David.
And would it be possible for Ireland to ever replicate Morocco's success?
I'm thinking to myself, my worry is we want to aspire to be a really good European nation and we beat Hungary, obviously, to get to the playoff against the Czechia and there would have been another playoff if we'd beaten Czechia, we would have had Denmark, but...
I've looked at Sweden this week and Austria and Bosnia, and they haven't raised a gallop for me against better opposition.
But how many coaches and contact errors, because you've been working in the Irish game, David, over the last while, would we need over, say, 20 years?
Are we anywhere near being competitive and being a team that can get to World Cups without this support?
Which is, we're talking millions from the government, not just maybe academy funding that we're getting now in dribs and drabs, but we're talking a massive...
policy from the state.
And there is the money there in this country, but is there the will?
I mean, do we need just huge investments to build an industry here to have any chance of being a team at a World Cup ever again?
To start, for your initial point, I'm not too familiar with Morocco's underage development and how they brought these players up.
I appreciate what they've done.
It might just end up being a golden crop of generation for Morocco.
I don't know that.
When you talk about contact hours...
Big thing, big thing.
And it's difficult for me in a way because I'm not too familiar with some European countries and how they work.
I know they're not too dissimilar to England.
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