Pat Daly

{{short description|Irish footballer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|12|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|1|1|1927|12|4|df=y}}

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| position = Defender

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| years1 = 1948–1949

| years2 = 1949–1951

| years3 = 1951–1954

| years4 = 1954–1956

| clubs1 = Shamrock Rovers

| clubs2 = Aston Villa

| clubs3 = Shamrock Rovers

| clubs4 = Transport

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Pat Daly (4 December 1927 – 1 January 2003) was an Irish footballer who played as a centre half.

Career

He joined Shamrock Rovers in 1948 as a defender. He also had a brief spell in England with Aston Villa in the 1949–50 season playing just three games for the Birmingham-based club.

He won his one and only senior cap for the Republic of Ireland national football team on 8 September 1949 in a 3–0 win over Finland in Dalymount Park, Dublin in a World Cup Qualifying game. Daly's appearance that day was shrouded in controversy, however. The FAI had unwittingly infringed the rules of the World Cup tournament by bringing on a substitute, which at the time, prohibited players being replaced.

Daly represented the League of Ireland XI on 3 occasions while at Glenmalure Park.

Sources

  • {{cite book|title=The Hoops|author1=Paul Doolan|author2=Robert Goggins|ISBN=0-7171-2121-6}}