Amateur Internationals
In addition to full internationals, a number of FAI XI internationals also represented the IFA XI at amateur level. In 1931 Fred Horlacher and Jimmy Bermingham both played for an IFA Amateur XI in a 3-1 win against England Amateurs. They played against the wishes of the FAI and were subsequently suspended by the association for three months. Bermingham, who had made his only FAI appearance in 1929, was never capped again, but Horlacher became a regular international during the 1930s
| Name | IFA Amateur XI | FAI XI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Apps | Goals | Years | Apps | Goals | |
| Jack McCarthy | 1921 | 2 | 0 | 1924–1930 | 6 | 0 |
| Fred Horlacher | 1931 | 1 | ? | 1930–1936 | 7 | 2 |
| Jimmy Bermingham | 1931 | 1 | ? | 1929 | 1 | 0 |
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Famous quotes containing the word amateur:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)