Playing career Kevin Cassidy




1 playing career

1.1 club
1.2 inter-county

1.2.1 dispute jim mcguinness


1.3 international rules





playing career
club

cassidy won donegal senior football championship medal ghaoth dobhair in 2002. while in united states in 2006, played in boston championship. returned later in summer win second donegal senior football championship ghaoth dobhair, beating st eunan s in 2006 final.


inter-county

cassidy made championship debut against cavan @ breffni park on 12 may 2002. in first season donegal, team reached 2002 ulster senior football championship final, defeated. famously went on lash when donegal secured draw against dublin in august bank holiday monday all-ireland quarter-final. dublin obliterated donegal in replay. nevertheless, cassidy awarded star performances year.


the following year, commitment team called question again. fermanagh having knocked donegal out ulster championship, team entered all-ireland qualifiers, first game coming against longford on saturday evening in ballybofey. cassidy spent day before @ wedding in gweedore. later recalled:



things not going , @ point bit fed football. ended going on beer night. after stopped messing, cos ll never forget it. @ time, thought, ah sound, game @ quarter past six, championship game re talking about. woke @ 12.0 (the next day) , there couple of missed calls on phone. , thought, have done? rang john gildea, senior player @ time. how s things, wee kevin? d heard. went , brian [mceniff, team manager] said, rightly so, re dropped off team.



a kevin cassidyless donegal overcame longford, , reached all-ireland semi-final sustained narrow loss armagh @ croke park.


in 2004, cassidy helped donegal reach ulster senior football championship final lost, again armagh. championship season ended in defeat fermanagh.


in 2006, , eamon mcgee suspended donegal football panel on breach of discipline. result of suspension, cassidy played no part in 2006 championship , went boston in united states summer. cassidy returned donegal team following year, time in midfeld alongside neil gallagher, , went on play pivotal role in helping donegal win county s first ever national football league title in 2007. first piece of silverware county senior team since 1992.


cassidy named donegal captain 2008 season. savagely criticised treatment of brian mciver disgrace , when county board famously forced mciver resign. quelled potential players revolt in 2010.


cassidy had announced intention retire after donegal s championship exit in 2010 new donegal manager jim mcguinness called him 2011 dr. mckenna cup panel. cassidy went on donegal first provincial title in 19 years defeat of derry in 2011 ulster senior football championship final. in all-ireland quarter-final against kildare in croke park on 30 july 2011, scored long-range winning point in stoppage time @ end of extra-time, point sent donegal on all-ireland semi-final meeting dublin. thrilling end extra-time epic day regarded finish sporting contest imagined inside heads of hollywood scriptwriters .


dispute jim mcguinness

in november 2011, manager jim mcguinness dropped cassidy donegal team after contributed book (this our year).


he appeared not understand why so.


cassidy has not played donegal since.


in went down surreal moment viewer , mícheál Ó domhnaill famously interviewed mcguinness following live 2012 league game on tg4 while cassidy, in role of television analyst, stood beside him head bowed.


he moved boston in 2012. moved chicago in 2013.


neil mcgee thinks him after every game.


international rules

cassidy has in past represented ireland in international rules series.








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