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Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, OBE (born 1 March 1952) is a football manager and former player from Northern Ireland, who is currently the manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team. Starting his career in his native Northern Ireland, O'Neill moved to England where he spent most of his playing career with Nottingham Forest, with whom he won the European Cup twice, in 1979 and 1980. He was capped 64 times for the Northern Ireland national football team, also captaining the side at the 1982 World Cup. O'Neill has managed Grantham Town, Wycombe Wanderers, Norwich City, Leicester City, Celtic, Aston Villa and Sunderland. He guided Leicester City to the Football League Cup final three times, winning twice. As Celtic manager between 2000 and 2005, he led that club to three Scottish Premier League titles and the 2003 UEFA Cup Final in Seville. After joining Aston Villa he achieved three consecutive 6th-place finishes in the English Premier League and guided them to the 2010 Football League Cup Final. ==Early life and Gaelic football career== O'Neill was born in Kilrea〔Said by O'Neill during lecture on theme of "(What it means to be Irish )", part of the (Ireland Of Tomorrow – A Presidential Lecture Series ) (first broadcast on RTÉ Radio on 31 December 2008).〕 in 1952. He was the sixth child of nine siblings, and has four brothers and four sisters.〔 O'Neill's father was a founding member of local GAA club Pádraig Pearse's Kilrea. His brothers Gerry and Leo played for the club as well as being on the Derry senior team which won the 1958 Ulster Championship and reached that year's All-Ireland Championship final. He played for both Kilrea and Derry at underage level as well. He also played Gaelic football while boarding at St. Columb's College, Derry,〔 and later at St. Malachy's College, Belfast.〔 While at St. Malachy's, he first came to public attention as a football player with local side Rosario and then eventually with Distillery. This breached the Gaelic Athletic Association prohibition on Gaelic footballers playing "foreign sports". When St. Malachy's reached the 1970 MacRory Cup final, the Antrim GAA County Board refused to allow the game to go ahead at Belfast's Casement Park.〔 The colleges involved switched the venue to County Tyrone to enable him to play. St. Malachy's won the game.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin O'Neill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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