Terry Daly (born 7 July 1953 in

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) is a former

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player who played as a

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. Daly was part of the

Athlone Town Athlone Town Association Football Club () is an Irish football club from Athlone who are playing in the League of Ireland. The club is the oldest in the League as it was founded in 1887. First elected to the League of Ireland in 1922, they pl ...

side that played

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in the

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and was a key member of that team. Having finished in 2nd place the previous season, Athlone earned a place in the 1975-76 UEFA Cup, the first time they had ever qualified for European competition. Their first-round game was against Norwegian side

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who they beat 4–2 on aggregate with Daly playing in both games. In the second-round, Athlone were drawn against Italian giants

drawing 0–0 in the first leg at St. Mel's Park setting a record attendance of 9,000 before losing the second leg at the

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3–0. Daly would start both games for Athlone. During the summer of 1977, he was part of the roster of the

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(NASL) team the St Louis Stars, wearing the number 7 shirt. In that era, with footballers often struggling to make ends meet, it was fairly commonplace for English and Irish-based players to spend the summer months playing in North America to earn extra cash. Daly played one season with the ''Stars'' in the 1977 NASL season, making 19 appearances and registering two goals and one assist. The ''Stars'' would finish second in the Northern Division before losing to the Rochester Lancers in the

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. He departed Athlone for

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in the summer of 1979, making his debut in a 1–0 win over Northern Irish side

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on 2 August in the

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. He was at

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for just one season, moving on to county rivals

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the following summer where he also spent one season. Daly was on the move again one year later when he signed for Shelbourne ahead of the 1981–82 season and after three years with ''the Reds'' he joined Home Farm in the summer of 1984. Two more years followed with ''Farm'' before Daly rounded off his

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career with one final season at Drogheda United in 1986–87.

Honours

Dundalk *

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: 1979–80

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daly, Terry Republic of Ireland men's association footballers Republic of Ireland expatriate men's association footballers North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players St. Louis Stars (soccer) players Shelbourne F.C. players Athlone Town A.F.C. players Home Farm F.C. players Dundalk F.C. players Drogheda United F.C. players Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Irish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Men's association football forwards 1953 births Living people Association footballers from County Dublin