CORK CITY BOOKED a meeting with KRC Genk of Belgium in the third qualifying round of the Europa League last night at Turner’s Cross, where Kevin O’Connor scored the only goal of the game to give his side a 2-1 aggregate win against Swedish side BK Hacken.
O’Connor pounced late in the 25th minute, volleying home Greg Bolger’s free-kick with the help of a deflection off Hacken defender Emil Wahlstrom.
The game wasn’t televised but RTÉ have uploaded the goal today. Here’s the strike that helped City to eliminate a Swedish team from European competition for the third time in the club’s history…
https://www.facebook.com/SoccRepublic/videos/893027500802999/
Bring on Genk. Come on city
Genk is well known for its outstanding youth academy. In 2003 they built their youth center next to their stadium and set up a youth program with Ronny Vangeneugden. There are further plans to build a boarding school and some synthetic pitches. In the past and now, many young players have found their way through the youth system. Some examples are Yannick Carrasco (Atlético Madrid), Jelle Vossen (Club Brugge), Steven Defour (Anderlecht), Christian Benteke (Liverpool), Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea), Divock Origi (Liverpool) and Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City).
Oh,and they also had Cork man Dominic Foley play for them.
My mistake,Dominic played for Gent.
We Cork fans found out that we would be probably be playing Genk if we where to qualify for the third round and ever since I found out I accepted that 3rd round would be as far as we would get but after watching Podgorica bring it to a penalty shoot out I am a lot more confident than I was before the match last night.
Yeah but they don,t have Kenny Browne and Seanie Maguire and have,nt played in Turners Cross