Con Martin

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Con Martin
Full name	Con Martin
Date of birth	20 March 1923
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Height	176 cm
Playing position	Left half
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
?? 19??-46 1946-48 1948-56 1956-??	Drumcondra Glentoran Leeds United Aston Villa Watford	?? (?) ?? (?) 49 (1) 194 (1) ?? (?)
National team
?	Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland	30 6
Teams managed
1965	Shelbourne
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Con Martin (born 20 March, 1923) was a soccer player for Leeds United, Aston Villa, Watford and Ireland and also a Gaelic football player with Army Corps and Dublin.

1 Soccer career
2 Gaelic Football
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Soccer career

Martin was capped for the Republic of Ireland on 30 occasions and also on six occasions for Northern Ireland.

[edit] Gaelic Football

Martin won a Leinster Senior Football Championship medal with Dublin in 1941 playing at Midfield. He partnered Joe Fitzgerald of Geraldines in Midfield in the 1941 final against Carlow on November 9. It was revealed that Con Martin played soccer for Drumcondra at the time, and due to a Gaelic Athletic Association ban on so called 'foreign sports', he did not receive his Leinster final medal when the Dublin county board were distributing the medals to the winning players. Con did not feature in the 1942 repeat of the Leinster final also with Carlow as he had already committed himself to soccer following the controversy. He was eventually awarded the medal forty years later.^[1]