'I’ve told them they’re not just playing for the team. The future of Irish football is in their hands'
Since November's Budapest bedlam, he's been far and away, but Hallgrimsson is locked and loaded now on next month's World Cup playoffs. In a rare one-on-one interview, he sat down with our football correspondent John Fallon.
HEIMIR TIME: Republic of Ireland men's head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson during a visit to Carrigtwohill Community National School in Cork. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile.
BEFORE the discussion on creating it, Heimir Hallgrimsson veers tangentially into a history lesson of his own.
Two quirks affixed to the wildcard choice as Ireland manager 18 months were his dentistry side-job and remote origins from an archipelago off Iceland’s south coast.
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