Soccer: Kildare's Ruby Boland receives international call-up
Huge boost for Sallins and Sharmock Roverts star
Ruby Boland from Sallins, has been called into the Ireland u16 National soccer team for the up coming international sequence of double header against the Czech Republic next week. The team led by renowned coach Tom Elms travels to Prague on Monday for the 5 day camp which will see the squad take on the Czech Republic next Wednesday and Friday.
Ruby featured strongly in the successful Bob Docherty International u15 Schools tournament in April led by Richard Berkley whereby the team completed a clean sweep against England Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Ruby received player of the tournament and has now progressed through to the excellent National Players Pathway Programme (NPP) which piloted this summer over 4 weeks tutoring over 100 girls under the watchful eye of FAI finest coaches at Abbotstown FAI complex.
It is a wonderful honour to pull on the green jersey and represent your country and Ruby will no doubt step up to the task as she has done so already in her current hunt for an u17 league of Ireland title and with Shamrock Rovers.
Prior to flying out on Monday Ruby plays in an FAI Cup final in Athlone Stadium on Sunday. This Rovers team completed a historic Super Cup win in Northern Ireland in the summer, the only team to win one in the Republic since 1984.