H/T: Brian Clerkin, European GAA PRO
AMARILIO VASCONCELOS MENDONCA. It’s not the name of a recognisable GAA figure.
But he produced a great piece of skill last Saturday while lining out for the Oulu Irish Elks in the second leg of the All-Finland Gaelic Football final against Helsinki Harps.
The game took place at the Raati Stadium in the city of Oulu, just south of the Arctic Circle. And Mendonca, a Portuguese native who has been only playing the game for 5 months, struck the score of the game.
He raced on to a breaking ball, produced an audacious flick similar to that produced by Simon Zebo and swung over a beautiful point.
But would Hawkeye have been required to judge this score under the Northern Lights?
Here’s some extended highlights of the game with thanks to – I Love Sport Oulu and www.sporttv.fi
YouTube: Cathaoir Sona
VIDEO: Seamus Coleman celebrates Killybegs county semi-final win
In pics: GAA game takes place near Arctic Circle in Finland
Only beating Malta by two goals is embarrassing
I’m glad Southgate got the job. He’s a useless pr*** and the best thing you can say about him is he is Allardyce’s sloppy seconds. A sad comment on the quality of English managers.
He is only caretaker manager as there wasn’t enough time to find a long term replacement before these games. Calm down.
@Chocolatito: It’s not embarrassing at all. Malta rarely get hammered by teams, in the last year they’ve only lost by one goal in games against Croatia, Italy and Austria. The reason they got hammered by Scotland was because they had a player unfairly sent off and fell apart from there.
No. It is embarrassing. It’s f***ing embarrassing. Malta’s top player only played today because he got someone else to cover his postman’s round. To be fair. Any team Rooney can get into now has to be shite.
When was the last time Rooney had a good game? If he played for a smaller club there’s no way he’d be playing for England.
They’re gonna win the WC now again
Had England -2 in an accum tks you sh#t head
Ah Ryano ya may aswell have given me your money
Had a big win during the week Al put a lot of it on an accum and the English let me down, typical
Bookie always wins Ryano
Your right Al, keeps ya interested in the boring games .
Nelson haha