youthclubs years clubs caps goals birth_place nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
stella maris 1968 -- 1969 1969 -- 1971 stella maris cork celtic dundalk 148 18 29 2 1 0 dublin , republic of ireland league of ireland xi republic of ireland right-back 4 1 1963-1966 1966 1940 john keogh -lrb- footballer -rrb-
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john keogh -lrb- footballer -rrb-

john keogh -lrb- born 1940 in finglas , dublin -rrb- is an irish former professional football player who played as a full back in the 1960s .
he started his footballing career with the dublin nursery club , stella maris , on richmond road near drumcondra .
they won the dublin district schoolboys league under 14 , 15 , 16 & 17 .
keogh was captain for the last two seasons .
they also won the all-ireland under 15 title .
his club mate at stella maris , johnny giles , went on to play with manchester united , while keogh was invited for trials at chelsea but returned home after a couple of months .
he joined shamrock rovers f.c. in 1958 where he made 9 appearances in european competition .
he made his debut in a dublin city cup game on the 16th of august 1959 -lsb- http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1959/0817/pg002.html#ar00202:1606b916a6ce16b6b81896ce] .
a former youth and junior international he also made one appearance for the republic of ireland national football team on 4 may 1966 , coming on as a substitute in a 4-0 defeat to west germany at dalymount park -lsb- http://www.soccerscene.ie/sssenior/player.php?id=159] .
`` i received a telegram in work from tom scully , the shamrock rovers secretary , on the day of the game to be at dalymount at 7pm that evening with my boots and shin-guards .
i drove to out to milltown from finglas where i lived , but the place was locked up and there was no one there , so i had to climb over the wall , break in the door , grab my boots and climb out over the wall again .
i stripped off in dalymount and after a few minutes theo foley , who had been doubtful from the start , went down injured , and i was sent on and played very well . ''
keogh shared his testimonial with pat courtney in may 1967 -lsb- http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1967/0518/pg003.html#ar00300:3566ad3b16c931579834d7b036e94539795f3989453a595f2b49fc2eba132d5b3430eb4c2febac338bc442a70d46a72945a7944927ab2cb6ae34a6ca2b579a3047b131394536195f38a9e93d8a003ec79443b7ab3fd7b54387c8] .
in january 1968 keogh joined cork celtic f.c. for two seasons and lined up against his former club in the 1969 fai cup final .
alas , in his last final appearance he scored an own goal in a 1-1 - draw .
and the milltown club won the replay 4-1 .
in 1969 he joined dundalk for his last two seasons .
he received an eircom legend of irish football award at halftime during the world cup qualifier game against armenia at croke park on wednesday october 14 , 2009 .
