LIMERICK HAVE ANNOUNCED the return of former midfielder Joe Gamble as strength and conditioning coach to both the club’s first-team and myriad underage squads.
A league and FAI Cup winner with local side Cork City during his six-year stint at the club, Gamble also plied his trade across the water with Hartlepool United, before helping Limerick to the First Division title to cap a two-year spell in the mid-west.
Now, after another league-winning, two-year spell at Brunei DPMM of Singapore, the 34-year-old is ready to transition to a non-playing role at one of his alma maters.
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“I’m very excited,” Gamble said to the club’s website. “It’s a whole new experience, obviously, not being a player and now sitting on the other side of the line where you’re coaching players.
“It’s something that I’ve prepared, studied and applied myself to for years well before I retired. I knew I would go down this route and it’s great that Limerick have given me the chance to prove what I can do.
“I wanted to go back into football full-time. I know Pat (O’Sullivan, chairman) and Kieran (Judge, operations manager) well, I was speaking to them and after doing so well to get promoted they really want to kick it on. They’re hungry for more and I want to be a part of that.”
In addition to his first-team duties, the twice-capped Republic of Ireland international will also be embedded in the underage structure at the club, in time for the impending 2017 introduction of the Under-15 National League, which will slot under the already established Under-19 and Under-17 National Leagues.
Gamble’s return to the Markets Field follows hot on the heels of the club’s re-signing of 2016 Player’s Player of the Year Chris Mulhall, who featured as joint-top scorer — along with John O’Flynn — during the Shannonsiders’ runaway First Division success, underlining the former UCD man’s impressive transition from right-winger to centre-forward.
Gamble also holds the honour of being the last League of Ireland player to line out for the Boys in Green, with the then-Cork City star involved in Steve Staunton’s side’s US tour in 2007.
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The last LOI player to represent Ireland has joined Limerick's backroom team
LIMERICK HAVE ANNOUNCED the return of former midfielder Joe Gamble as strength and conditioning coach to both the club’s first-team and myriad underage squads.
A league and FAI Cup winner with local side Cork City during his six-year stint at the club, Gamble also plied his trade across the water with Hartlepool United, before helping Limerick to the First Division title to cap a two-year spell in the mid-west.
Now, after another league-winning, two-year spell at Brunei DPMM of Singapore, the 34-year-old is ready to transition to a non-playing role at one of his alma maters.
“I’m very excited,” Gamble said to the club’s website. “It’s a whole new experience, obviously, not being a player and now sitting on the other side of the line where you’re coaching players.
“It’s something that I’ve prepared, studied and applied myself to for years well before I retired. I knew I would go down this route and it’s great that Limerick have given me the chance to prove what I can do.
“I wanted to go back into football full-time. I know Pat (O’Sullivan, chairman) and Kieran (Judge, operations manager) well, I was speaking to them and after doing so well to get promoted they really want to kick it on. They’re hungry for more and I want to be a part of that.”
In addition to his first-team duties, the twice-capped Republic of Ireland international will also be embedded in the underage structure at the club, in time for the impending 2017 introduction of the Under-15 National League, which will slot under the already established Under-19 and Under-17 National Leagues.
Gamble’s return to the Markets Field follows hot on the heels of the club’s re-signing of 2016 Player’s Player of the Year Chris Mulhall, who featured as joint-top scorer — along with John O’Flynn — during the Shannonsiders’ runaway First Division success, underlining the former UCD man’s impressive transition from right-winger to centre-forward.
Gamble also holds the honour of being the last League of Ireland player to line out for the Boys in Green, with the then-Cork City star involved in Steve Staunton’s side’s US tour in 2007.
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