Brian McAlinden is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as goalkeeper for Armagh in the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, which Dublin won. He is reputed to be the first goalkeeper to use placed kickouts. A club player with Sarsfields, he made his inter-county debut in 1975 and played until 1990, winning three Ulster Senior Football Championship titles, and a save from John O'Gara in the 1977 campaign earned him an award for Save of the Season. He also played for Ulster in the Railway Cup and for Ireland in the International Rules Series, and was named the fifth greatest footballer never to have received an All Star Award. After retiring he managed Sarsfields and was joint manager of Armagh with Brian Canavan from 1995 to 2001, a pairing known as the Two Brians, winning Ulster titles in 1999 and 2000.
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