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Ireland National Football Team

Head coach: Steve Staunton
Captain: Kevin Kilbane
Top scorer: Robbie Keane
FIFA ranking: 38

The Republic of Ireland national football team is the football team of the Republic of Ireland and is governed by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI). It is a member of both UEFA and FIFA, and although they had been involved in international competition since the 1930s, the team did not qualify for any international tournaments until Euro 88 in Germany. That acheivement was followed by reaching the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup. The Irish also reached the second round in the 1994 and 2002 World Cups.

Ireland Team
No.	NAME	POS	Height	Weight	Age
-	Colin Doyle	G	6-5	201	22
-	Nick Colgan	G	6-1	188	33
-	Wayne Henderson	G	6-1	189	23
-	Alex Bruce	D	5-11	160	22
-	Alan Bennett	D	6-2	176	25
-	Stephen O'Halloran	D	5-11	168	21
-	Joe O'Cearuill	D	-	179	20
-	Sean St. Ledger	D	6-0	163	22
-	Stephen Kelly	D	6-0	181	23
-	John O'Shea	D	6-3	166	26
-	Paul McShane	D	6-0	159	21
-	Liam Miller	M	5-7	146	26
-	Joe Gamble	M	5-7	154	24
-	Alan O'Brien	M	5-10	157	22
-	Peter Murphy	M	5-10	178	26
-	Darren Potter	M	6-1	159	22
-	Kevin Kilbane	M	6-0	182	30
-	Stephen Hunt	M	5-9	174	25
-	Anthony Stokes	S	5-11	154	18
-	Andrew Keogh	S	6-0	154	21
-	Kevin Doyle	S	5-11	174	23
-	Stephen Gleeson	S	6-2	154	18
-	Shane Long	S	5-10	156	20
-	Daryl Murphy	S	6-0	171	24

Group D
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
Germany	7	6	1	0	29	4	25	19
Czech Republic	7	4	2	1	15	4	11	14
Ireland	7	4	1	2	12	8	4	13
Slovakia	7	3	0	4	16	13	3	9
Wales	6	2	1	3	8	9	-1	7
Cyprus	6	1	1	4	9	16	-7	4
San Marino	6	0	0	6	1	36	-35	0