Jamie Clarke: I rejected professional soccer shot in New York

Jamie Clarke has revealed how he was offered the chance to swap Armagh football for life as a professional soccer player in New York.

The Orchard County attacker spent much of 2016 in the US and got involved with the Queens-based New York Shamrocks club who compete in the Cosmopolitan League. Kevin Grogan, a former Manchester United and Ireland underage player, was the point of contact as the Dubliner is working in coaching and player development in the Big Apple.

Crossmaglen man Clarke was on the books of Dundalk for a while as a teenager before focusing fully on Gaelic football and burst onto the inter-county scene with 2-2 against Donegal in the 2010 Championship.