Footballer Stephanie Roche has been invited to meet Barack Obama at the White House on St Patrick's Day.

Stephanie Roche said that she is "a little bit raw" and "disappointed" at not winning Fifa’s Puskas award at the Ballon D’Or ceremony in Zurich, but expressed thanks to "everybody from around the world" that voted, "particularly those back in Ireland".

As Stephanie Roche first took her seat in the Kongresshaus in Zurich, she suddenly found herself alongside the 2013 world player of the year — and the man who would claim the Ballon D’Or again last night — but she wasn’t interested in Cristiano Ronaldo’s hopes of lifting it again.

John Flood could have been at the Fifa Ballon d’Or gala in Zurich last night rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of world football.

Stephanie Roche has narrowly missed out on becoming the first woman to win the FIFA Puskas Award for goal of the year.

James Rodriguez of Real Madrid and Columbia won FIFA Puskas Award ahead of Ireland’s Stephanie Roche.

Stephanie Roche has insisted her wonder strike, which will be celebrated at Monday’s FIFA Ballon d’Or gala, was not a fluke.