It’s almost a century since Ireland first faced the Netherlands at the 1924 Paris Olympics and Irish football’s golden era was punctuated by tournament meetings with the Dutch
So what is it about Dutch football that makes Irish artists reference them so regularly?
In 1910 the Wicklow-born John Kirwan became the first professional manager of Ajax. A remarkable sportsman, Kirwan won an All-Ireland Football Championship medal with Dublin aged just 17 before later winning the FA Cup with Spurs. Kirwan managed Ajax for four years, guiding them into the top flight for the first time and was behind the club’s adoption of their iconic white jersey with a red vertical stripe.
More recently a number of Irish internationals have played in Holland including David Connolly and Jack Byrne . Currently competing in the Eredivisie are Troy Parrott at Excelsior Rotterdam and under-21 international Anselmo García MacNulty who last weekend started a match for PEC Zwolle for the first time. Making the reverse journey is Dutch midfielder Thjis Timmermans who plays for St Patrick’s Athletic.
The FAI took the view that if a club played here they had to participate in Irish competitions which Cruyff believed explained why “…even today Ireland has to get by without a top-level club”.
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