Winning the name of the game for Ventre

The first captain to lift the fabled trophy at the newly opened Aviva Stadium in 2010, Danny Ventre knows there is nothing better than that winning feeling.

The despair of losing his first FAI Cup final, Sligo Rovers’ defeat to Sporting Final at Tallaght Stadium the year before, merely emphasised that.

Ventre now brings the experience of subsequently winning the cup three times to his Derry team-mates as he hopes to get the nod to start, possibly at right-back, on Sunday having battled back to fitness following a mid-season knee operation.