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Peter Canavan (born 9 April 1971) is a former Gaelic footballer and manager. He played inter-county football for Tyrone, and is one of the most decorated players in the game's history, winning two All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals, six All Stars Awards (more than any other Ulster player, and joint third overall), four provincial titles, and two National Leagues and several under-age and club championship medals. He represented Ireland in the International Rules Series on several occasions from 1998 until 2000.〔 He is considered one of the great players of the last twenty years by commentators such as John Haughey of the BBC, and in 2009, he was named in the ''Sunday Tribune''s list of the ''125 Most Influential People in GAA History''. His scoring record of 218 points is the second highest of all time in the Ulster Senior Football Championship. His early high scoring rate, when he would often be Tyrone's best performer – particularly in the 1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final when he scored eleven of Tyrone's twelve points—led to claims that Tyrone was a "one-man show," and that the team was too dependent on him, particularly in his early career. Since retiring as a player he has managed the Fermanagh inter-county Gaelic football team (2011–2013). ==Personal life== Canavan is from Glencull, near Ballygawley, County Tyrone〔 and was the tenth of eleven children. His older brother, Pascal, played with him on the Tyrone panel for most of the 1990s. He is married to Finola (sister of former Tyrone team-mate Ronan McGarrity〔), and has four children, Aine, Claire, Darragh and Ruairi, and has been a Physical Education teacher in Holy Trinity College, Cookstown, throughout most of his career (Gaelic games are amateur sports).〔 While there, he taught Eoin Mulligan his point-taking technique, and the pair have been known in the media as 'master and student' ever since, particularly by television commentators. He writes a column for the Gaelic games magazine, ''Hogan Stand'' and the Northern Ireland edition of ''The Daily Mirror''.〔 〕 and in 2008, Canavan joined TV3 as a football pundit for their first year of broadcasting live GAA matches. In 2003, just over a week before Tyrone's Ulster final appearance against Down, Canavan's father, Seán, died. It came as a shock to Canavan, who had thought his father (who was already in hospital) was getting better. He decided to play in the match, stating that he knew, subconsciously "() was going to be playing in the Ulster final all along and Daddy certainly wouldn't have wanted () to do anything but play." Canavan has suffered from asthma since he was a child, and has battled throughout his career to control the ailment. He told the Asthma Society of Ireland, "I thought to myself, this is something that I am just going to have to put up with." In later years, however, improved medication has afforded Canavan what he described as, "a better quality of life".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peter Canavan – Life With Asthma )〕 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「Peter Canavan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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