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28th November 2018
08:13am GMT

"It's about producing younger players," he began.How do we do that? We give them hope and we give them enthusiasm that if they make it here in Ireland in the League of Ireland, well then they've a proper chance of making it onto the national team without having to risk everything by rushing over to England when they're not ready for it or when they don't want to do it.
"We have got to give the League of Ireland its due respect and have our players here have an ambition to have a pathway through the League of Ireland into the Irish set-up and not to run away on a boat to have a career over and done with before you've even grown into a man."https://twitter.com/VMSportIE/status/1067490809090592769 The second point he makes is inter-linked. The quandary that is the League of Ireland needs be sorted out.
"We need better pathways at all levels of the game...We need to try and figure out what are the best routes to try and figure out how to bring investment to the bottom of the game. The League needs to find out how to do what every other league in the world does - promotes itself, markets itself, brings in money from all over the world if it can."The League of Ireland needs to become bigger, it needs to become better and he feels for it make those improvements, the FAI can't have anything to do with it.
"It can't survive owned by the FAI, or even half-owned by the FAI."Quinn reckons the League should be privately owned by a group of people who have a head office in Dublin. He would even work there himself, only so long as the FAI isn't involved.
"For the League yes, not the FAI...Too much politics there for me."https://twitter.com/VMSportIE/status/1067498437401346049 That's the way things should be.
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