10's SOCCER TOURNAMENT

Talk about short notice .... we were asked as a club to take part in St. Davids (Cullen, Co. Tipp) 10's Soccer challenge, last night, and the match was today. We ended up with enough players for a team at 10am, with our first match at 11am!

It was hard to track down players at such short notice due to holidays etc, but we managed in the end to field 9 players (7 a side and 2 subs), they were; Darragh Browne, Jerry O'Dea, Michael Duce, Cormac Browne, Conor Heffernan, Daniel Moloney,Roger Clery, Darragh Treacy & Jack Connolly

Now bearing in mind, most of these lads have never played a soccer match before, some of the players had never even met before, and 3 of them were only 7. ....... Well lets say we were not expecting too much......

But well done lads, because we were in for a pleasant surprise, we have some little stars on our hands, because our first match we lost 1-0 after an unlucky goal went past Jerry (who was in top form in goal). The second we were roundly trounced by Kilmallock (the eventual winners).
The third match saw us leading 2-0 at half time. (after 2 great goals from Michael and Jerry - Michael incidently scoring the first ever goal for Castle United!) but the 2nd half saw us go down 4-2. However in the last match against the hosts, we managed to score 4 great goals (2 to Cormac and 2 to Daniel) and won 4-3. (see video of two of goals from final game right here on the blog)

So a fantastic day was had, the lads really enjoyed themselves, all the team played great, every player worked hard for the team, and we would sincerely like to thank them for playing, and the parents who turned out at such very short notice.

And we've been invited back next year - watch out Kilmallock!! ;)


A lovely finish from Cormac.

A fantastic chip over the goalie from Danny Moloney, two great goals from our final match, well done lads.