Joe Bergin (Gaelic footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
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| Irish name | Seosamh Ó Beirgin | ||
| Sport | Gaelic Football | ||
| Position | Midfield | ||
| Born |
17 February 1981 Galway, Ireland |
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| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Occupation | Bank Official | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 1999- | Mountbellew-Moylough | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 2000-2012 | Galway | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Connacht titles | 5 | ||
| All-Irelands | 1 | ||
Joe Bergin (born 17 February 1981) is an Irish Gaelic footballer from Galway. He was a member of the Galway panel from 2000 to 2012. He plays his club football with Mountbellew-Moylough.
Bergin's rise at a young age was meteoric. He burst onto the scene in 2000 as part of a Galway side that reached that year's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final; losing to Kerry after a replay.
A regular in the team during that campaign as a replacement for the injured Kevin Walsh, Bergin made a quick impression. Standing at 6"4, he has height but he also showed that he possessed good football skills and had a penchant for kicking valuable points.
At this time, Bergin was a key member of the Galway Under-21 team and his impressive performances for the Under-21's as they secured a Connacht title showed the Senior Management team that he deserved a starting place in Galway's Championship campaign in their first game against New York. In the three games that followed, Sligo, Leitrim and Kildare, Bergin cemented his place as a regular in the side, despite his relative experience at the Senior inter-county level. That year culminated in an All-Ireland Final against Kerry. Unforutnately for Bergin and Galway, Kerry were triumphant in the replay. That year, he was named the All Stars Young Footballer of the Year.
The next year, Bergin was an assured starter but Galways campaign to go one better in 2001 came unstuck after an unexpected defeat to Roscommon in Tuam. Galway had to go through the newly introduced qualifiers to have any chance of All-Ireland glory. Their quest began to pick up momentum with victories over Wicklow, Armagh, and Cork. They exacted revenge over Roscommon in the quarter finals with a 0-14 to 1-06 victory. A late comeback, inspired by Derek Savage, gave Galway a three-point victory over Derry in the semi-final. Galway were in their 3rd All-Ireland final in 4 years, and Bergin was an influential player on their way to the final, scoring 0-09 along the way. In the final against Meath, who had annihilated reigning champions Kerry in the other semi-final, Galway outclassed the Meath team in some style, winning by 9 points, 0-17 to 0-08. Bergin contributed with 2 points, making up for his disappointment the previous year when he did not start in the Replay against Kerry. He finished as Galways 2nd top scorer that year behind Pádraic Joyce
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