12-year-old finds long lost football from Ireland on Welsh beach
Speaking to Newsround, Celyn said that he was "very shocked" to find the mystery football at his local beach on Easter Sunday."I was at the rock pools with my dad, who booted a football across the beach."We played with it for a bit and then saw the name of a football team on it called Finglas United. We went to search it up when we had a signal, and it turns out it was a football team from Dublin."Celyn's dad Andrew works on a campsite, and, writing on social media, he joked with Finglas United that "if you want your ball back, you are welcome to come and collect it from us".
The football team had fun on their own social media post, writing that their under-12s may need some practice when trying to score goals. Finglas United said: "There is missing the target, and then there is the football ending up in Wales missing the target!"Speaking to the BBC, Celyn's dad Andrew said: "I wouldn't like to think how long it had been in the sea.... we've found ropes and things like that washed up before but never a football."Only time will tell if the mystery of the missing football from Ireland ever gets solved... and if the team will ever get reunited with it.
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