Watch Manchester United v Southampton SuperCupNI Final live on the BBC
Southampton ran out impressive 4-1 winners in their semi-final against Hamilton Academical at the Riada Stadium in Ballymoney while United secured a one-nil win over Down in their last four encounter.
The final kicks-off at 8pm Friday 1 August at the Coleraine Showgrounds with live coverage of the game on BBC iPlayer and on the BBC Sport NI website starting at 7.50pm. Michael Clarke is joined on commentary by former Manchester United, Newcastle and Northern Ireland winger, Keith Gillespie, who played in the tournament and was part of United's famous 'class of 92'.
Rooney senior played in the tournament himself for Everton's under-14 side in 2000. The annual tournament attracts some of the best youth soccer teams across the UK and from around the world.
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How footballers did in their GCSEs: Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and more
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Not long after exam season finished, he crashed home an iconic 30-yard strike against Arsenal while playing for the Toffees in 2002 aged 16. Judging by his results, life would have been different if he had not become one of the greatest players in English football history. The former England captain is the first to admit he left school without any qualifications, owing it to the fact he started playing for Everton more regularly just as he was supposed to be sitting his exams. However, he recently hit out at people who deemed him to be unintelligent. He told BBC Sport: "It's no secret that I didn't even take GCSEs but I think people assume because of that that I'm not educated, which is really wrong. I made a conscious effort when I was at Everton and Manchester United to educate myself in a lot of different things, such as black history and religion. "The reason I did that was because I wanted to hold conversations with my team-mates who are from different backgrounds. That was something I did to help me with my team-mates and help understand how they have been brought up. That's probably something people don't understand about me." Steven Gerrard When it comes to football intelligence, Steven Gerrard stood head and shoulders above most when he was bossing the midfield for Liverpool. As is often the case with many players who rose to the top level as a youngster, most of Gerrard's energy was spent on the pitch, rather than in the classrooms. Academically, he was not the greatest, earning one C, six Ds and two Es in his GCSE exams. However, when it came to leadership, he was showing excellent traits when he was very young, according to his former Huyton and Roby Primary School teacher Gillian Morgan, who also coached their school football team. She said: "The thing I remember most about him was his ability as a leader on the field. I think he started playing for the school team when he was nine years old and even then Steven was always trying to help others." Gerrard's time at school did not hold him back, as he finished his career with one Champions League title, a Europa League title, two FA Cups, three League Cups and 114 international caps for England. Frank Lampard Frank Lampard is a jack of many trades, excelling academically as well as in football. The Coventry City manager went to the oldest school in Essex, the independent Brentwood School, where he shared classes with the likes of boxing supremo Eddie Hearn. He earned 12 GCSEs at A* or A, including an A* in Latin. Looking back on his time studying the Roman language in a past interview, Lampard said: "I got an A* in Latin, more through application than talent for Latin, I would say. I don't know how I did it. In terms of application, I was quite a good boy at school. 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He could have scored 10 goals against Arsenal and it still wouldn't have stopped him coming back into school and working hard." Bukayo Saka Similarly to Rashford, Bukayo Saka successfully balanced his footballing demands with his educational goals. He left school to embark on his football career with a string of strong GCSE results in his bag. Speaking about his time at school with the Arsenal website: "My mum and dad always encouraged me. They never stopped me from playing football, they just wanted to see a balance and I was also interested in my education. "I actually got quite good grades, so they were pleased on that side. I got four A*s and three As in my GCSEs, so I did quite well at school. My favourite lesson was obviously PE, but I also liked business studies a lot, I got an A* in that." Harry Kane It's well documented that Tottenham Hotspur's highest goalscorer Harry Kane was an Arsenal fan as a youngster. 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BBC News
19 hours ago
- BBC News
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Uefa Conference League play-off first leg - Shelbourne v LinfieldVenue: Tolka Park, Dublin Date: Thursday, 21 August Kick-off: 19:45 BSTCoverage: Watch live on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app. Shelbourne manager Joey O'Brien says he expects a "sharper" Linfield when the teams meet again at Tolka Park in the Uefa Conference League play-offs. The League of Ireland champions edged out the Irish Premiership holders 2-1 over two legs in a Champions League qualifier in sides have signed players since with former Cliftonville man Sean Moore joining Shels from West Ham United, while Ryan Yates and Sam Taylor are recent arrivals at Windsor despite the new acquisitions and Linfield manager David Healy playing the red-hot Kieran Offord beside Matthew Fitzpatrick in their win over Vikingur last week, O'Brien feels the main difference from the the Blues may be in terms of match sharpness."They're a good team and I've been up watching them since we last played them," said the Shelbourne manager."Player-wise, most of them played against us so they probably won't change the way they played."They went with two out and out centre forwards (against Vikingur) but they might change it again."It was still their pre-season (during the first meeting) so now they will be fitter and match sharper, so it will be a tough game." 'Both teams would have bitten your hand off to be in this position' The Dublin club will be without goalkeeper Conor Kearns, who picked up an injury in their FAI Cup defeat against St Patrick's initially picked up a hamstring issue in the second leg of the Champions League qualifier against the teams are to meet in another European qualifier in the same season is strange. After losing to Shels, Linfeld beat Lithuania's Zalgiris and Vikingur of the Faroe Islands in Conference League qualifying to put them on the bring of the group lost to Qarabag (Champions League) and Rijeka (Europa League) in subsequent qualifiers to drop down into a Conference League teams finding themselves on the brink of qualification to the group stage is a scenario O'Brien feels all would have jumped at if offered from the start."In Europe, it's not something you'll think will happen but it's here now and a great opportunity for both teams," he said."If you'd have offered both teams this opportunity at the start that we'd play for a place in group football, we'd have taken your hand off."Our performances in Europe have been very good and now it's about implementing that."The former Republic of Ireland international did not buy into the suggestion his players took their celebrations at Windsor Park from the first meeting too far and it will serve as added motivation for Linfield."That euphoria is what you play the game for, so I'm not going to tell the lads to calm down."You put so much work and effort into it, when you win you celebrate. It's like Rijeka here the other night [after beating Shelbourne in the Europa League qualifiers], for me to complain about the noise coming out of their dressing room. "That's what football's about - celebrating when you win. In two weeks' time when whoever gets through, they'll be celebrating."
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- BBC News
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