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<h3>A youth team from Killarney Athletic were the only Kerry-based squad to compete in the Belfast Youth Cup last week.</h3>
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<h5>AWAY GAMES: Killarney Athletic U13s competed in the Belfast Youth Cup.</h5>
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<h5>TEAM PHOTO: Killarney Athletic U13s did their club proud in Belfast last week.</h5>
<p>The U13 arm of the club were one of a very small amount of clubs from outside of Northern Ireland to participate in the invitation-only tournament.</p>
<p>This Killarney Athletic team is worth watching – previously they won the U11 competition in the Dublin School Boys Cup, the first team from outside Dublin to win it.</p>
<p>Killarney Athletic team were invited to last year’s Belfast Youth Cup but the event was cancelled.</p>
<p>Instead, they took up the invitation this year and while results did not go their way, club chairperson Ger Nagle said "It was a massive experience for them and they made lifelong memories".</p>
<p>The Belfast Youth Cup is usually open to British and European teams too but the organisers were unable to invite them due to the ongoing uncertainty with international travel regulations.</p>
<p>The tournament was held at the Ulster University Jordanstown between August 9 to 11.</p>
<p>On the opening day of the competition, they played four matches against some of Northern Ireland’s best schoolboy football teams including Dungannon, Rosario, Ballymena, Linfield, Ballinmallard and Warrenpoint Town FC.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, their number one goalkeeper Ewan McCrohan got injured in the opening match against Dungannon and they were on the backfoot for the rest of the tournament.</p>
<p>“Fionn Sheehan went between the posts for Ewan the rest of the first day but he too got injured in the last game so JJ O’Donoghue stepped up and made a few great saves, but Ewan was back in action for the second day,” said Ger.</p>
<p>They eventually qualified for the fifth and sixth play of the final losing 1-0 to Coleraine.</p>
<p>“They did Killarney Athletic proud,” Ger added.</p>


U13 soccer team do Killarney proud in Belfast

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