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Sue Ronan Adds Some New Blood

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Sue Ronan Adds Some New Blood

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06:42 28 Apr 2014


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Republic of Ireland Women’s National Team manager Sue Ronan has named a 22 strong squad for next week’s vital FIFA World Cup qualifier against Russia at Tallaght Stadium.

Ronan has added Eve Badana, Yvonne Tracy, Rachel Graham and Emma Hansberry to the 18 players who were on duty for the last qualifier against Group 1 leaders Germany which Ireland lost 3-2 to a freak injury-time goal from the European champions.

A win for the Girls in Green would see them leapfrog Russia into second place in Group One. Just the top team qualifies for the tournament in Canada while the runners up will go into the play-offs.

“This is a key game for us,” admitted Ronan. “We have both played the other four other teams in the group and they are two points ahead of us so we need to get ahead of them. We have produced some great performances over the last few months against top teams and delivered some very positive results and now we have another match against another team ranked much higher than us.

Despite losing 9-0 to Germany, Ronan warns that the Russians are still a very dangerous side.

"Russia reached last year’s European Championships and, after a bad start to the campaign against Germany, they have won three games on the trot. They will come to Dublin knowing a win will put them firmly in the driving seat for the play-offs so there’s a lot at stake for both teams.”

Here's the squad in full; 

Name

Club

Position

DOB

Caps

Goals

EMMA BYRNE

Arsenal (England)

Goalkeeper

14-06-1979

106

0

NIAMH REID-BURKE

Raheny United

Goalkeeper

06-08-1991

1

0

EVE BADANA

Drexel University (USA)

Goalkeeper

09-07-1993

3

0

SOPHIE PERRY

Millwall (England)

Defender

11-11-1986

16

0

MEABH DE BURCA

Galway WFC

Defender

11-08-1988

35

0

LOUISE QUINN

Eskilstuna United (Sweden)

Defender

17-06-1990

28

4

MEGAN CAMPBELL

Florida State University (USA)

Defender

28-06-1993

24

1

YVONNE TRACY

Unattached

Defender

27-02-1981

78

3

KAREN DUGGAN

Peamount United

Defender

29-05-1991

4

0

DIANE CALDWELL

Avaldsnes (Norway)

Defender

11-09-1988

32

1

SHANNON SMYTH

Amazon Grimstad (Norway)

Midfielder

22-06-1987

29

1

JULIE ANN RUSSELL

Peamount United

Midfielder

28-03-1991

30

3

CIARA GRANT

Raheny United

Midfielder

11-06-1993

11

0

DORA GORMAN

Peamount United

Midfielder

18-02-1993

10

0

SIOBHAN KILLEEN

Raheny United

Midfielder

15-03-1993

3

0

RACHEL GRAHAM

Raheny United

Midfielder

18-07-1989

4

0

EMMA HANSBERRY

Castlebar Celtic

Midfielder

26-05-1994

0

0

FIONA O’SULLIVAN

SC Frieburg (Germany)

Forward

17-09-1986

29

11

DENISE O’SULLIVAN

Glasgow City (Scotland)

Forward

04-02-1994

26

7

STEPHANIE ROCHE

Peamount United

Forward

13-06-1989

29

5

RUESHA LITTLEJOHN

Sandviken  (Norway)

Forward

03-07-1990

19

2

AINE O’GORMAN

Peamount United

Forward

13-05-1989

64

7


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