Congratulations to last week’s academy player of the week winners, Walid A and Ryan O’H
League of Ireland Academy kicks off this weekend
The League of Ireland Academy programme was launched today and officially kicks off on Saturday, with local man Daniel Ponce de Leon taking part given he recently signed from Mooncoin Celtic to the Waterford FC U14 academy.
We will be watching out for Daniel in the next few weeks and months, as he gets to play Bohemians of Dublin, Wexford FC, Shamrock Rovers, Cork and many other national teams across the county.
We wish him and his team the very best of luck in the new 2023 LOI Academy season.
U10 Girls in Faithlegg
Our youngest u10 girls headed to Faithlegg this morning for a run out against Park Rangers in sunny conditions on a fresh spring morning. Plenty goals scored by both teams with lots of positives to take from it.
U16 Girls League: Piltown 0 – 1 Mooncoin Celtic
A fierce contest today in sunny Piltown with little between the teams .
Our u16s took to the pitch against Piltown for an afternoon kick off .
Both teams were very disciplined at the back and for us today Sophie Scahill commanded the back four , she took control from the first kick and was consistent throughout , along with Eimear Quinn , Molly Murphy and Saoirse Corcoran .
On the 34th minute , a well taken corner from Eimear was met by Niamh Reddy who made sure the ball finished in the net , scoring her first Mooncoin Goal.
Emily Blackmore , Molly Long and Ella Brennan played some lovely through balls to Eimhin O Donohue, whose work rate today was phenomenal. And Kate McGrath worked tirelessly in the middle to keep the ball on the move .
But hats off today to keeper Sadhbh Kirwan , who in the last ten mins , when Piltown were pressing hard to find the equaliser, kept her cool and pulled off some great saves ,
Mooncoin came away with the three points in a very evenly matched and enjoyable game.
U12A Girls League: Mooncoin Celtic 3 – 2 Villa
Something had to give this morning as these two teams started the morning in search of their first point of the season.
An even enough first half saw our girls take the lead from an own goal after a great delivery by Lexi Walsh. Villa responded with a tidy finish of their own just before half time.
A different mooncoin team appeared in the second half and brilliant displays from our back three and Courtney O’Shea Power saw us go 3-1 ahead with goals from Courtney and Taylor but villa came back and scrambled a second goal to leave a nervous finish but solid goalkeeping and defending saw the girls secure their first win.
U14D Boys League: Mooncoin Celtic 2 – 4 Ballinroad
We welcomed Ballinroad to suir crescent this afternoon and both teams paid their respects before the game observing a minute’s silence for the late Kate Quinn who was laid to rest this morning.
Both teams were evenly matched and ballinroad were first to score. We had a few missed chances and ballinroad got a 2nd just before half time. Jay dunphy got one back for us minutes into the 2nd half with cathal morahan scoring another belter to make it 2-2. Conor phelan was unlucky not to score near the end.
The back line were superb again today. Final score was 2-4 to Ballinroad.
U12C Boys League: Ballyduff 3 – 0 Mooncoin Celtic
TJ was captain away to Ballyduff in a game between 8th and 9th. Some great saves from Tyler and later on from Jake were the highlights in what was a game of few chances for Mooncoin. Tl
The final score was flattering to the hosts as Mooncoin were more open at the back in the second half while pushing for a goal.
U12B League: Mooncoin Celtic fall to impressive De La Salle
A very impressive De la Salle team showed no mercy for our understrength A side and showed why they are going to take some stopping in this league.
Aaron Dowley continued his goal scoring form with another goal.
U10 Girls play Southend
Mooncoin Celtic U10 Girls entertained Southend this morning in Suir Crescent and are showing clear signs of improvement as this young group battled away for the duration of the game.
U14B Girls League: Dungarvan United 3 – 0 Mooncoin Celtic
Disappointing result for the u14 white team who travelled to Dungarvan hoping to come away with something.
We started strong matching their intensity. An unfortunate goal conceded just before half time, meant we were on the back foot for the second half.
As we tried to claw the goal back some gaps appeared that Dungarvan took advantage of, slotting two more goals home.
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