Ten years tomorrow since soccer first played in Croke Park

It’s a decade since soccer made its Croke Park debut when Ireland faced Wales but the occasion didn’t have the same impact as rugby’s appearances at GAA HQ.

WHEN Ireland host Wales at the Aviva Stadium tomorrow it will be 10 years to the very date the same sides met in a European Championship qualifier in Dublin.

March 24, 2007 should have been a red-letter day in the history of Irish football, as Croke Park played host to ‘the garrison game’ for the first time in front of a record-breaking crowd for a soccer match in this country of 72,539.