An All-Ireland club football title would be another bauble for the outrageously successful dual player.
Declan Bogue IT ALL DEPENDS on what you think your playing career amounted to. Was it really about the journey and not the destination? How is your juice to squeeze ratio? Did it teach you things about yourself?So take Con O’Callaghan’s career, crunch the numbers and sit back in awe.In football, he’s just after winning his first Dublin and Leinster titles and this Sunday has a chance of winning an All-Ireland when they face Errigal Ciaran .He has three National League titles, and three All-Stars.
Advertisement With all that success it’s easy to forget that O’Callaghan the hurler arrived like a comet in Cuala’s dream season of 2016-17. “So when it came to us, we had him in our crosshairs and we put one of our best markers on him. He couldn’t deal with him and we had to make a switch at half-time.” They had lined up Paul McNeill for the man-marking job. But they had to sacrifice their marquee attacker Brendan Rogers and bring him back.
“But as every game went by and the more training he got with Cuala, he just got better and better. Cuala had a great system whereby they were creating space and got him into situations where he was one on one. And once he had the ball in his hand, you weren’t getting it off him.” And over the winters, his morphing from athletic young fella into full beast mode has been the stuff that strength and conditioning coaches can only dream of.
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