Keith Andrews
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830 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2018
last heard 22 Aug
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We're going to have players for two years
extra now because of Brexit.
That's pretty much certain, I think, at this stage.
So the onus is on our League of Ireland clubs to perform more work in the academy space and we've got to help that as well.
But it's very important that the journey in from grassroots is a smooth one because it hasn't been.
We've inherited...
a broken, fractured structure there and we're working really hard because it'd be best for Irish football if we can find common ground that our best players go into the League of Ireland, that our League of Ireland gets strong, our clubs have big aims over the next five years, our government help us because of the good that football does, we're the most popular sport in the country, the most active, the most players registered and we feel as helpful as they've been to now to keep us going
at a difficult time there around January, that the future, if they get in behind us, that we can do great things.
And I think the grassroots is so important in that connection because if that whole link isn't right, it's always going to remain fractured.
But we believe that most people are seeing the light on that.
Yeah, I think the power of football is incredible because we've been on the front pages and the back pages for about 12 months now.
And everybody is interested in the game.
And when the senior team do well, you know, when they go on trips like the last couple of Euro Championships that we qualified for.
And back in my day, in the glory days when we were at World Cups, the country comes to a standstill.
And so, you know, to try and develop more out of our...
national league structure for young players and our league of ireland as an industry for our top coaches and top players to be part of to make that more important that connection to make the whole journey a stronger one because you know if you think about it the world is football is driven commercially at the top level and we've suffered commercially in that we've uh we've not had if you like the value
that football in the country deserves, transgress into the domestic game.
So we've got to change that.
But it doesn't mean that we forget about grassroots because they're an important part of it.
Because the message when you go to the commercial world is we're a strong unit.
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