Current Clubs of Ex-Rovers Players/Managers

Currently Playing:

Ireland

Premier Division

Dean Marshall (Bray Wanderers)

Daryl Horgan (Cork)

Brendan Clarke (St. Patrick's Athletic)

Darren Meenan (St. Patrick's Athletic)

Derek Foran (Dundalk)

Liam Burns (Dundalk)

Paul Whelan (Dundalk)

Gary McCabe (Shamrock Rovers)

Aaron Greene (Shamrock Rovers)

Michael Schlingermann (Drogheda United)

David McDaid (Derry City)

Anto Murphy (Shelbourne)

Kevin Devaney (Bohemian F.C.)

 

First Division

Stephen O'Donnell (Finn Harps)

Ciaran Greene (Finn Harps)

Barry O'Mahoney (Athlone Town)

Derek O'Brien (Limerick)

Alan Kirby (Longford Town)

 

Northern Ireland

Premier Division

Conor O'Grady (Ballinamallard United)

Jason McCartney (Ballinamallard United)

Steve Feeney (Ballinamallard United)

Danny Keohane (Ballinamallard United)

Gary Curran (Ballinamallard United)

Liam Martin (Ballinamallard United - On loan from Sligo Rovers)

Alvin Rouse (Ballinamallard United)

 

England

Premiership

Seamus Coleman (Everton)

 

League Two (4th Tier)

Romuald Boco (Accrington Stanley)

Padraig Amond (Accrington Stanley)

James Meredith (Bradford City)

 

English Conference National (5th Tier)

Matthew Blinkhorn (Hyde)

 

English Conference North (6th Tier)

Sean Doherty (Colwyn Bay)

Mark Boyd (Workington)

 

Northern Premier League Division One North (8th Tier)

Lee McEvilly (Warrington Town)

 

Northern Premier League Division One South (8th Tier)

Darren Mansaram (Brigg Town)

 

Scotland

Premier League

Eoin Doyle (Hibernian)

Richie Ryan (Dundee United)

John Gibson (Dundee)

 

First Division

Chris Turner (Dumbarton)

 

Second Divison

Colin Cameron (Player/Manager at Cowdenbeath)

 

SJFA East Region Super League

Stephen Manson (Linlithgow Rose F.C.)

 

Wales

Premier League

Connall Murtagh (Bala Town)

Matthew Boswell (Bala Town)

 

Spain

Tercera División - Group 7 (4th Tier)

Martin Nicolas Camano (AD Colmenar Viejo)

 

Austria

Landesliga Salzburg (4th Tier)

Zoltan Vasas (FC Zell am See)

 

Germany

Regionalliga West (4th Tier)

Fahrudin Kuduzovic (SV Eintracht Trier 05)

 

Bayernliga (5th Tier)

Aubrey Dolan (FSV Erlangen-Bruck)

 

Serbia

Serbian Super Liga

Tomislav Arcaba (FK BSK Borča)

 

Cyprus

Jamie McKenzie (Halkanoras F.C. Idaliou)

 

Iceland

Úrvalsdeild karla (Top Tier)

Mark Doninger (Stjarnan F.C)

 

Australia

New South Wales Premier League (2nd Tier)

Matthew Gordon (Sutherland Sharks)

 

Northern Territory Northern Zone Premier League

David O'Dowd (Port Darwin)

 

China

Chinese Jia League (2nd Tier)

Adam Hughes (Harbin Yiteng)

 

USA

North American Soccer League (2nd Tier)

Kupono Low (Carolina Railhawks)

 

Barbados

Premier Division

Ramuel Miller (Youth Milan F.C.)

Riviere Williams (Barbados Defence Forces)

Jonathan Straker (Barbados Defence Forces)

 

Angola

Mauro Almeida (F.C. Nacional de Benguela)

 

Ex-Players & Managers Currently Managing/Coaching:

Ireland

Gerry Carr (Assistant Manager at Sligo Rovers)

Gavin Dykes (Manager Sligo Rovers U-19's)

Liam Buckley (Manager at St. Patrick's Athletic)

Padraig Moran (Caretaker Manager at Athlone Town)

 

England

Willie McStay (Assistant Manager at Stockport County)

Keith Gilroy (Coach at Derby County Youth Academy)

Darren Jack (Coaching with 'Just4Strikers' in Liverpool area)

Tommy Cassidy (Manager at Blyth Spartans)

Paul Cook (Manager at Accrington Stanley)

 

Scotland

Colin Cameron (Player/Manager at Cowdenbeath)

Jim McInally (Manager at Peterhead)

Ross Jack (Manager at Elgin City)

 

Holland

Rob McDonald (Manager at VV DOVO Veenendaal)

 

USA

John O'Hara (Coach at George Mason University)

 

China

Don O'Riordan (Technical Advisor at Beijing Baxi FC)

 

Unknown from previous update:

Owen Morrison - Last playing at Derry City

Joe Kendrick - Last playing at Mansfield Town, England

Sean Connor - Last managing at CAPS United F.C., Zimbabwe

Roderick Collins - Last managing at Monaghan United, Ireland

Steve Cotterill - Last managing at Nottingham Forest, England

Lawrie Sanchez Last managing at Barnet, England

Groundhopping Rovers Style

With the Europa League 2nd Qualifying Round draw less than three weeks away, here is a selection of grounds which the Bit O'Red may be travelling to in July 2012...

Aktobe Central Stadium (FK Aktobe) 13,000

Alfheim Stadion (Tromso) 7,500

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium (Anorthosis Famagusta) 12,000

Ataturk Olympic Stadium (Istanbul BB) 76,000

Balgarska Armiya Stadium (CSKA Sofia) 22,000

Bloomfield Stadium (Bnei Yehuda) 17,500

Borås Arena (IF Elfsborg) 18,000

Central Stadion (FC Gomel) 14,000

Color Line Stadion (Aalesunds FK) 11,000

De Grolsch Veste (FC Twente) 30,000

Dynamo Stadium (Anzhi Makhachkala) 20,000

GelreDome (Vitesse Arnhem) 25,000

Georgi Asparuhov Stadium (Levski Sofia) 29,000

Giulești – Valentin Stănescu (Rapid Bucharest) 19,000

Gradski Stadion (Slaven Koprivnica) 4,000

GSP Stadium (APOEL Nicosia) 29,000

Jules Ottenstadion (AA Gent) 13,000

Karađorđe Stadium (Vojvodina Novi Sad) 12,000

Keine-Sorgen Arena (SV Reid) 7,000

Lerkendal Stadion (Rosenborg) 21,000

Letna Stadium (Sparta Prague) 21,000

Metalurh Stadium (Metalurg Donetsk) 5,000

Nadderud (Stabæk IF) 7,000

NRGI Park (AF Aarhus) 20,000

Pasienky (Slovan Bratislava) 13,000

Råsunda Stadium (AIK Stockholm) 36,000

Red Star Stadium (Red Star Belgrade) 55,000

Sar-Tov Stadium (Maccabi Netanya) 7,000

Stade de Genève (Servette FC) 30,000

Stade de Suisse (Young Boys Bern) 32,000

Štadión Antona Malatinského (Spartak Trnava) 18,000

Stadion Miejski (Lech Poznan) 43,000

Stadion Miejski (Ruch Chorzow) 10,000

Stadion Poljud (Hajduk Split) 35,000

Stadion Wojska Polskiego (Legia Warsaw) 31,000

Štruncovy Sady Stadion (Viktoria Plzen) 12,500

Trenkwalder Arena (Admira Wacker) 12,000

FC Viktoria Plzeň

It’s getting close to European time once more for Sligo Rovers. Albania (09/10), Ukraine (11/12)...where to next? This time we enter in Qualifying Round 2 where we will be unseeded and the games take place July 19^th and 26^th. The draw takes place Monday, June 25^th and there is a wide range of opposition we could face. Can Ian Baraclough go one better than Paul Cook and pick up a win in Europe? Here’s one potential opponent...

FC Viktoria Plzeň

FC Viktoria Plzeň are a club based in the city of Plzeň (Pilsen in English) in western Czech Republic. The club was founded in 1911 and qualified for the 12/13 Europa League by finishing 3^rd in the ‘Gambrinus Liga’, just 3 points off Champions Slovan Liberec.

Štruncovy Sady Stadion

They play their home games in Štruncovy Sady Stadion (currently known as ‘Doosan Arena’ due to sponsorship) which has a capacity of 12,500. They have had limited success in the Czech league winning the league just once in the 10/11 season. They have also won twice in 70/71 and 09/10. They also currently hold the Czech Super cup trophy beating national cup winners FK Mladá Boleslav 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out in July 2011.

Euro Record

They have qualified for Europe on 3 previous occasions with their best European stint coming in the 11/12 season where they qualified for the group stages of the Champions League beating Pyunik Yerevan, Rosenborg and FC Copenhagen along the way. They were then placed in a tough group alongside Barcelona, A.C. Milan and Bate Borisov where they finished 3^rd with a respectable 5 points, including a late point at home to Milan. They have never faced Irish opponents.

Squad and Management



Marek Bakoš

They are managed by 48 year old Czech Pavel Vrba, who has been in the role since 2008. As well as the Czech national league, he has also won the Slovakian Superleague with MŠK Žilina in 06/07. He also spent some time as Assistant Manager of the Slovakian national team.

Marek Bakoš is Viktoria’s danger man up front finishing the 11/12 season as the leagues’ 2^nd highest goal-scorer with 16 league goals, helping him to his first international cap with Slovakia in February 2012 against Turkey, at the age of 28. Their squad is made up of mainly Czech nationals, some of whom have represented their country at international level including Daniel Kolář (9 caps) and Pavel Horváth (19 caps). In 2007 Horváth was fined while playing for Sparta Prague for performing a Nazi salute towards the fans. Horváth denied he was doing a Nazi salute, claiming he was just trying to calm the fans down.

  The City

Plzeň is located 90 kilometres west from the capital city of Prague. It is the 4^th most populated city in Czech Republic with a population of 172,932 people. The city is known mainly as an industrial city. The city is well known for Pilsner beer, which was first produced in the city in 1842, as well as car manufacturer Škoda. In 2015 Plzeň will be the European Capital of Culture along with Mons in Belgium.

St. Bartholomew's Gothic Cathedral

Popular tourist attractions include St. Bartholomew's gothic cathedral, Pilsen Zoo and Pilsner Urquell brewery where you can take a tour and learn the history of the beer brewed there. The Pilsner Fest is also a popular event held around September every year, it is a beer festival celebrating the birthday of Pilsner Urquell brewery. There are also several museums including a puppet museum, ghost museum and a ‘Techmania’ science centre.

Getting There

There are no direct flights to Plzeň. However, Aer Lingus fly to Prague from Dublin and from there it is quite easy to get a train or bus to Plzeň. The journey by train takes about 40mins while a bus takes around an hour. There is a regular service throughout the day.

Plzeň is also located close to the German border and the city is accessed easily on the Munich to Prague train line. Aer Lingus fly to Munich from both Dublin and Cork while Lufthansa also fly from Dublin.

Cost

Plzeň is a very cheap city in general and is a cheaper alternative to the capital of Prague, with a meal in an average restaurant likely to cost around €5. 500ml of local beer is around €1. Local transport costs an average of 60cent one way.

Other Information

Club Nickname: The Rudi (Reds)

Average Attendance: 7,009

Club Website: http://www.fcviktoria.cz/cs/

Forum: http://www.pfans.cz/forum/

Currency: Koruna (Kč)

Average High Temperature (July): 22°C

Average Low Temperature (July): 12°C

Phrases (Pronunciation in brackets)

Hello - Dobrý den (Dobree den)

Yes - Ano (A-no)

No – Ne (Ne)

Thank you - Děkuji (Die-ku-yi)

One beer please - Jedno pivo prosím (Yeddno pivo prosim)

How much? - Kolik? (Ko-leek)

Water/Coffee/Wine - Voda/Kava/Vino (vo-da/ka-va/vee-no)

Is it? - Je to tak?

I will call the police - Já zavolám na policii

Have you seen McHugh? - Viděli jste McHugh?

I am from town - Jsem z města.