AINE O GORMAN: "Girls get to be part of something special" | Aviva x FAI 'In Her Boots'
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I'm delighted to be joined by former Irish international and League of Ireland sharpshooter Áine O'Gorman. Áine, how are you? Good, and yourself? Very good, thank you. Very good. We're here today to chat about the Aviva In Her Boots campaign. And I suppose, Áine, if we could just kick off by telling us a little bit about the programme and your involvement with it as well.
Yeah so I was actually asked to be an ambassador for it was a program that I actually really enjoyed backing as well so the aim of the program by Aviva in a company with the FAI as well was to keep girls involved in sports I suppose in particular the aim of this was to keep involved in football as well so that was kind of the target audience but it's to educate and kind of empower the volunteers as well that working with our young players too through education and workshops as well so obviously it launched in 2024 and now throughout the course of 2025 they rolled out a number of workshops and you yourself um retired now at the moment but you're on a coaching journey yourself Yeah, absolutely.
So I obviously retired at the end of last year and said to myself I was going to give myself a little bit of time before I dived headfirst into that because I know how obsessed I would become with it. So I actually got a nice little opportunity to coach with the Braille Wanderers under-17 girls team, which I'm really, really enjoying. Obviously, it's local to me as well. So yeah, still in that developing young players.
What is the Aviva In Her Boots programme and why is it important?
what is it about coaching that may be attractive to you? Because I know a lot of players, you can ask them, they say, it's not for me. You know, I've been on the other side of things. What made you want to go into it? And so soon after retiring as well.
yeah I think like I always felt as a player like it's always good to give back I think give back from the experiences things you learn the highs the lows and ultimately for me as a player I was really big on standards so it's just to keep continuing to push and drive them standards and I suppose develop young players and I suppose help them understand what it takes to become a footballer
From your point of view with this program, I could nearly ask you every question twice because I could ask you what you think from a coach's perspective, but also what you think from a player's perspective. So we'll go players first. And when you were growing up, say this program is targeted at nine to 16 year old girls. What challenges did you face showing up to training?
Yeah, so I actually played with the boys until I was 14. Yeah, well, it was a challenge I enjoyed. I was lucky in the club I was in, it's scary that I was very welcomed and the coaches were really good to me as well. I'm actually still really good friends with some of the guys I grew up playing football as well. But it was when it came to that time when I had to stop playing. with the boys as well and then the transition over to play with the girls as well and obviously it's amazing now that there's so many girls teams and I know in my local club there's just as many girls teams as there is boys teams now but that wasn't the case back then so we had to go on into Stella Maris in Dublin so I'm obviously grateful for my parents for driving me in and out there nearly every night of the week something I only appreciate now really but I think for me obviously I played with there was a couple of other girls in the team as well and they actually didn't stick with it
numerous reasons and went on to secondary school and yeah so they actually fell out of it and if I have a conversation with them now they kind of will say that they regret not sticking with a sport because they think it would have stood by them later on in life so yeah I think it's good for the girls for the coaches I think to get extra support and maybe an understanding and education of different things approaches they can take with the girls as well and then for the girls it's good that they can feel part of something special
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