4th Year SMCO student & Women’s Soccer Elite Scholarship recipient Eleanor Ryan Doyle joins Dan for this episode. Ellie had a hugely successful 2019, which included: winning the Só Hotels Women’s National League with her club Peamount United FC and reaching the FAI Cup final in the Aviva for the second year in a row, being voted into the WNL Team of the Year and shortlisted for WNL Player of the Year, representing TU Dublin and Team Ireland in the World University Games in Naples, Italy, receiving her first Senior Women’s National Team call up for a friendly against current world champions, the USA and then being called up for a second time for a qualifier vs Montenegro and how the new WNT Manager Vera Pauw has helped her. Ellie also brings us through her introduction to football and how playing “with the boys” in her younger years and in teams above her own age has helped shape her into the player she is today. She tells Dan how losing to Wexford Youths FC in the Aviva two years in a row impacted her mentally and how she used it as motivation. We also looked back on her time representing us in Third Level Football, playing in the cage, her first WUG in 2017, being a role model to other players and the good memories made along the way. Ellie finishes off by telling us about her personal and team goals for the new season, when the WNL does eventually return. ---
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