Pat Daly | |
Fullname: | Patrick Daly |
Birth Date: | 4 December 1927 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Place: | Ireland |
Position: | Defender |
Years1: | 1948–1949 |
Years2: | 1949–1951 |
Years3: | 1951–1954 |
Years4: | 1954–1956 |
Clubs1: | Shamrock Rovers |
Clubs2: | Aston Villa |
Clubs3: | Shamrock Rovers |
Clubs4: | Transport |
Caps1: | 18 |
Caps2: | 3 |
Caps3: | 48 |
Caps4: | 41 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Goals3: | 0 |
Goals4: | 3 |
Nationalyears1: | 1949 |
Nationalteam1: | Republic of Ireland |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Pat Daly (4 December 1927 – 1 January 2003), also known as Paddy Daly was an Irish former footballer who played as a centre half.
He joined Shamrock Rovers in 1948 as a defender. He also had a brief spell in England with Aston Villa in the 1949–50 season playing just three games for the Birmingham-based club.
He won his one and only senior cap for the Republic of Ireland national football team on 8 September 1949 in a 3–0 win over Finland in Dalymount Park, Dublin in a World Cup Qualifying game. Daly's appearance that day was shrouded in controversy, however. The FAI had unwittingly infringed the rules of the World Cup tournament by bringing on a substitute, which at the time, prohibited players being replaced.
Daly represented the League of Ireland XI on 3 occasions while at Glenmalure Park.