Con Martin

Cornelius Joseph Martin, known as Con Martin, was born on 20 March 1923 and died on 24 February 2013. He was an Irish footballer who first played Gaelic football for the Dublin county team before switching codes to a successful soccer career with Drumcondra, Glentoran, Leeds United and Aston Villa. He played Gaelic football in his youth for St Maurs in Rush, County Dublin, and was called into the senior Dublin panel at eighteen, helping Dublin win the Leinster title on 9 November 1941. Because he was also playing soccer, the Gaelic Athletic Association expelled him under its ban on foreign sports and withheld his winner's medal, which he eventually received in 1971 after the ban was lifted. As a soccer player he was a dual international who captained both the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and he was nicknamed Mr. Versatility.