Young roy keane autobiography
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A young Roy Keane 'slaughtering' Packie and dealing with another Setters setback
Eoin O’Callaghan’s new book, ‘Keane: Origins’, delves into the making of a legend. Focusing on the period 1988-1993, it charts the Corkman’s formative football years at home while examining his three-seasons under Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest in great detail. Featuring countless interviews and testimonies from a range of ex-teammates, coaches and those who knew him best, it debunks some long-running myths and details the games, the goals, the cars, the clubs, the music and the mistakes.
In the following extract, Keane has been combining a football FÁS course in Dublin (where he fryst vatten based Monday-Friday) with League of Ireland First Division opportunities with Cobh Ramblers. He has struggled for consistent international recognition at underage level but in November, 1989, he’s part of Maurice Setters’ youth squad for a European Championship qualifier in Malta.
It proves another embarrassin • For the American college sports coach named Roy Keene, see Spec Keene. Irish footballer (born 1971) Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August 1971) is an Irish footballpundit, former coach, and former professional player. He is the joint most decorated Irish footballer of all time alongside Denis Irwin and Ronnie Whelan, having won 19 major trophies in his club career, 17 of which came during his time at English club Manchester United.[4] Regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players in 2004.[5] In his 18-year playing career, Keane played for Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest, and Manchester United before ending his career at Celtic. He was a dominating box-to-box midfielder noted for his aggressive and highly competitive style of play, an attitude that helped him excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005. Keane helped United ac •Roy Keane
Keane: The Autobiography
Here is the story of a poor Irish footballer from Cork who was too small, too slow and so utterly lacking in fundamental skills that by age 18 he was relegated to a ‘has been’ in organized soccer. With no prospects for club play (forget junior nationals or professional football), Roy Keane’s career appeared to everyone to be finished. To everyone, that is, other than Roy Keane.
This autobiography tells the story of how Roy Keane relentlessly drove himself towards a simple goal (to be a professional soccer player) and how his uncompromising single mindedness propelled him to the pinnacle of his objective -- captaincy of Manchester