Mick Smyth

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Mick Smyth
Personal information
Full name Michael Smyth
Date of birth (1940-05-13) 13 May 1940 (age 83)
Place of birth Dublin, Ireland
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
St. Patrick's C.Y.M.S.
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1960–1962 Drumcondra ? (0)
1962–1964 Barrow AFC 8 (0)
1964 Altrincham 18 (0)
1964–1970 Shamrock Rovers 112 (0)
1967Boston Rovers (loan) 0 (0)
1970–1979 Bohemians 193 (0)
1979–1982 Athlone Town 82 (0)
1982–1983 Shamrock Rovers 1 (0)
International career
1968 League of Ireland XI 1 (0)
1968 Republic of Ireland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mick Smyth (born 13 May 1940) was an Irish soccer player who played for Drumcondra, Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians and Athlone Town in the League of Ireland throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and had a short spell in England with Barrow in the early 1960s.

He made his Rovers debut at Drogheda on 27 December 1964 and kept a clean sheet. A dominant goalkeeper, he won five FAI Cup winners medals in a row with Rovers from 1965 to 1969. After making 12 appearances in European competition for the Milltown club he left to join Bohemians in May 1971. He won two league winners medals in 1974/75 and 1977/78 and was named Irish Football Personality of the Year in 1977. He made 16 appearances in European competition for Bohs. Played in 136 competitive games in a row for Bohs between December 1973 until the April 1979.

Along with Johnny Fullam he signed for Athlone in August 1979. [1] He signed back for Rovers in August 1982. He earned one cap for Ireland in 1968 against Poland. [2] On 25 November 2008 his medals were stolen. [3]

Honours

Sources

  1. The Irish Times . Dublin. 2 August 1979. ISSN   0791-5144 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1979/0802/Pg003.html#Ar00303:6AF3DE7464276E04AE6EB4C36E84AD70A4C26B55A16E25B66D06A96D96BE6D86A86F96BD6EC87F7188956BC89B6E88B16B44AE6D54C3 .{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Statistics: Republic of Ireland [Powered by tplSoccerStats]".
  3. "Mick's stolen memories". 5 December 2008.

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