Given the question: Facts: - clubs: st -lrb- loan -rrb- bohemians athlone town patrick 's athletic shamrock rovers boston rovers - caps: 64 127 ? 11 9 - position: wing-half - nationalcaps: 4 1 - years: 1962 1974 1974 -- 1963 1966 -- 1973 1967 1973 -- - nationalyears: 1967-1971 1971 - youthclubs: st patrick 's athletic - nationalgoals: 0 0 - youthyears: 1962 -- 1963 - birth date: 1945 - fullname: michael kearin - name: mick kearin - nationalteam: league of ireland xi republic of ireland - birth place: kildare , republic of ireland - goals: 17 6 0 0 1 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mick kearin .
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mick kearin -lrb- born 1945 in kildare -rrb- is a former irish football player who mainly played as a wing-half , after starting his career as a forward .he started off with st patrick 's athletic f.c. at 17 before joining bohemians f.c. in 1963 as an amateur .bohemians struggled in the league , winning a handful of games , but the arrival of sean thomas as manager was soon to change things , '' it was major news -- sean thomas had managed shamrock rovers and brought them phenomenal success . ''there were offers to turn professional and semi-professional by the likes of derry and glentoran and waterford .'' the derry one i was nearly going to take because it was full-time but sean thomas said that shamrock rovers was the offer to accept -- they were the club in the country -- they were in europe every year .sean said , '' do n't mind these other teams -- they can promise you ten pounds a week more than what rovers are offering , but after a month they might n't have any money . ''in the end he went to rovers in may 1966 -lsb- http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1966/0521/pg003.html#ar00321:405c6b43fc83] for four times the amount they 'd originally offered .the most memorable european tie mick played in was against fc bayern munich in 1966 .rovers drew 1-1 at dalymount park but it was the return match played in below freezing temperature in munich that almost caused german hearts to crash .with a minute to the final whistle the score was 2-2 , and qualification was beckoning for rovers on the away goals rule -lrb- this was a bayern team peppered with world cup winners like sepp maier , franz beckenbauer , gerd muller -- and their club had already sold 40,000 tickets for their next european game -- that 's how sure they were that rovers would be a push-over -rrb- .the silence of the crowd was deafening as they say , the relief palpable when der bomber netted the winner .a six-week summer team to promote the advent of professional soccer in the usa in 1967 saw mick play against south american...