St John Bosco's Kildysart Hoping To Make History This Afternoon

Now St. John Bosco is in Kildysert to be playing in the ladies football post-primary schools

junior c final on Wednesday the 18th against Celerino College in Salt Hill. I'm joined now

by joint manager Efe Keane to look ahead to the game. Exciting times for the squad and

of course for the school as well. Yeah, absolutely there it was. It hasn't happened

in Kildysert since the last time the girls were in Ireland was 91 and 92 and four times

just missing out in the unlearned final there and actually our captain I will our

joint captain Nisha Telti's mother Maira was actually on the panel those years so it's

a long time common but it's definitely now the atmosphere is really building there.

The last week just coming up to us and everyone is getting really excited for the game

and I suppose there are an absolute privilege and an honor to work with I suppose from myself

and from Norm as Beth and from Jersey as well that there is such a Christian group and

everything that they do and it's a really really privilege to be involved with the team.

Yeah, you mentioned it's a long time common dating back to the 90s but it's a it's a

shattered history as well and become the first Clare School to win a junior Ireland title

that has to be extra motivation if you want to put it that way. Yeah, absolutely. I

suppose what's rare is wonderful and it was something like this for the girls like I suppose

this isn't brewing just it's brewing since I suppose they were nearly in primary school

like they in common in one school and you know all the successes that they've had with

the three clubs, Fergus Rovers, Condicer and Cool Gales like it's something that I suppose

for them has been there's been brewing over the years and I suppose you could see it especially

in fail as like you could see those groups coming true like they are they are a special

group and then when they came to us to indicate that we were just wanted to build on that

and I suppose last year we won the junior A for the first time and this year we have two

junior teams playing junior D and junior A and like the success is it's a really credited

them and I suppose it's something that it has been brewing and I suppose credit where credit

is due that this is something that they fully and well deserve to be there and it would

be great to bring it back to the school especially considering the last time was 91 and

92 would be great great excitement and you know it would be a great honor to bring it back

to the school. Yeah and you mentioned the three local clubs there are Fergus Rovers, Cool

Gales and of course, Condicer that's sort of the real magic of this that it's a real

community driven effort. Yeah absolutely it's a very close in the community like we've

less than 300 students in the school and we've roughly 150 girls like in the school to be

able to do what these girls are doing and it's definitely quality over quantity here like it's

definitely such a tightness there's such a tightness group and you can see it with them like even

if it's their if they're school if if it's their academics if it's their social life whatever it

is like they really they really do it together as a group and you can see that that has come

true since since they started to plan football like in first year that it's you know it really

is a tightness group and that's the beauty of it and especially working in a school of roughly

the less than 300 students that you really do get to know your students very very well and that

you know everyone really knows everyone and it's I suppose it's being able to nurture that and

get to know them personally you know and academically in school but out in the sporting field as

well you really get to know the girls which is great. Yeah look at the campaign today I suppose

for people who might be aware what's the the path to the final look like for you this year.

Yeah so we played we played Mitchelstown in the monster final that was played in Krakashel we had a

very very strong win over Mitchelstown but I think the girls just kicked it up another gear and

they got they just were really able to express themselves and it was great that we had that game

at home as well. Ian Derry then was our Aladdin semi-final and that was played in Ghana Maddie and

that was that kicked up another gear like that you know that that took on another life with

someone like they started Ian Derry started well within our girls got we got a goal and we got

we kicked back into it then and that game was very really fast pace and I suppose it proved

it really proves that Aladdin when you get to Aladdin stage that the the level of football kicks

up another gear and I suppose you're in an Aladdin for a reason and you're playing you are playing

like the best in the country and now we face Salerno in the Aladdin final Salte, the Aladdin final

and Wednesday their their school of about 670 they're all girls school so again you know we're

you know you're faced with the best of the best but I suppose in order to grow and to progress as a

school you want to be playing like the best of the best and I think we have faced that over the

last number of weeks and months come a true this monster campaign that we have during the teams

we have played have been really up there and that we we want to be able to play against the best

and with the best. To sign of a real good team and some good quality players that they they come

alive for the big game and relish that big occasion as well. Yeah they do absolutely they're

extremely mature and how they say and they're extremely composed in everything that they do and

there's an aura of unselfishness throughout the whole group like from 1 to 30 like the it's always

about getting the ball to the person the best position it doesn't matter who it is you know it's

all about like making that extra run and it's all about you know that support play and doing it

for each other and doing it for for the team and for the school and I think that really has that

belief has really stemmed within the group especially over the last couple of years since they've

played together since first year that I suppose that it's that unselfishness that really is I

suppose the key thing for us as a management that we have noticed over the last number of weeks and

months that you know they really are they don't care who scores don't care who makes the block you

just have to do us and and you have to do it for the betterment of the team. Yeah that was particularly

evident in in the monster final rack and up a pretty big score with a good few goals inside

there as well but when you look at the number of scores it wasn't just one or two girls doing all

the score and there was the white number of scores. Yeah exactly like it's all about bringing in

everybody and as many people as you can and even making a couple of positions which is to trying

it more and more girls on the ball and to get their get their confidence off and just get a couple

of scores over the bar and to the back of the nation. I know that Mitchell's town team they were in

the exact same position last year and they had the last out last year like so they were a good side

coming into this they were probably you know they were probably tipped to win it because of being

in at the year before and but I just think the girls you know they just another light came in and

they just brought it up another level that they were able to I suppose utilize the ball and hold the

ball when they needed to and you know hold that ball make the runs when they needed to and not

kick away any any way so ball just use it smartly and I think that's something that they have

developed over time and I suppose it's from from playing together so much like that even they play

like clear under 16's football together a lot of them around the Kamolgi team you know the

lot of them played they won a monster basketball this year with the school and a lot of those girls

that are on this football team were on those teams as well but it just shows the friendship and the

unity that they have to be able to bring us from different chords like Kamolgi basketball

up to ladies football like it's it's unbelievable really yeah you'll be hopeful of course for a

a big clear contingent if possible to get there and support the girls on the day yeah absolutely it's

done in kill tombs and bridges and in rest common but she's the more sport and the better like I know

we have majority of the schooler and are coming down so it's it's great but it was it's a once

it you know all islands don't come around easy and it's a once in a lifetime after after you

really so it's great that the whole school can come and it's great there's as many people that

can come down can come down and support the girls to watch even just to watch them because they're

unbelievable to watch and they're just I suppose it's it's a it's a great privilege to be a part of

on our own titles never won easy it's a shout at history and hopefully we can bring the title

back to Gildysert yeah absolutely yeah definitely be lovely to be lovely to make history and we'll

take it one ball at a time