“I was diving for the ball because I didn’t know the rules”: How Spanish national Anay Rios went from novice to playing in the All-Ireland Junior Club quarter-final

The following article is by Daragh Small. She was once nicknamed ‘the Spanish Gooch’ by Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh.    Anay Rios stands 165cm tall, speaks multiple languages, hails from Andalucía and Sunday’s currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Junior Club quarter-final will mean that bit more for her. The diminutive Spaniard has seen it all and done it all across Europe, but playing in an All-Ireland …

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