The inaugural Lower Ormond Invitational gets up and running with three days of tournament football for underage development teams across the country.
Lower Ormond Football Academy are hosting the tournament in Brickfields which sees U13s to U11s from some of the top academies across the country compete including Shamrock Rovers and Villa FC whilst local teams from Lower Ormond, BT Harps and Nenagh AFC are also taking part.
Samantha McMahon from Lower Ormond FA outlines why the academy was set up last year.
“Andrew McCarthy is the founder, he’s a local man here in Borrisokane and he kind of had this brainchild in his head, he said ‘I want to set up an academy’.
“His big thing was that it’s very hard for particularly the older boys, the 2013 age group and on, to sustain playing soccer, his thing was that is the age where they all start to drop off.
“He wanted to put something together that would give them a chance to showcase their talent and maybe get spotted by bigger football academies.”
