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\nKevin Doherty’s side will use the trip as a late-season training camp<\/p>\n
Drogheda United could be set to come up against Mohamed Salah after the League of Ireland side confirmed an October date with Turkish outfit Trabzonspor.<\/p>\n
The sides will meet at Papara Park on 1 October, marking the first time the Louth club have played in Turkey.<\/p>\n
It comes as Ireland and Turkey celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations in 2026.<\/p>\n
Drogheda are one of Trabzonspor’s three sister clubs along with Turkish clubs Sanl\u0131urfaspor and Siirt Provincial Special Administration Sport.<\/p>\n
The game will be accompanied by a documentary to be aired on Turkish TV – ‘An Gorta M\u00f3r \u2013 The Star & The Crescent\u2019 – exploring the story of Ottoman humanitarian assistance during the Irish Famine.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast back in 2020, former Drogs PRO Roisin Philips explained how the relationship between the clubs has flourished.<\/p>\n
“It goes back far longer than 2011 when they announced that we’d become their sister club,” she said.<\/p>\n
“In fact it goes back to the Great Famine in 1845. Drogheda had links with Turkey as a result of the Sultan at the time sending aid over to the Irish people. Boats came up the Boyne in Drogheda. He also sent \u00a31,000 at the time.<\/p>\n
\nKevin Doherty’s side will use the trip as a late-season training camp<\/p>\n
“There’s been a long history of co-operation between the two countries, from the Turkish side to Ireland.”<\/p>\n
Taking place during the three-week international break, the trip will serve as a late-season mini-camp for Drogheda. Salah’s Egypt face South Sudan in African Cup of Natiosn qualifying on 27 September, so the former Liverpool may not feature in the friendly.<\/p>\n
Trabzonspor\u2019s Super Lig campaign will also resume the following week after a break, with Salah and Co facing a trip to Samsunspor.<\/p>\n
The Turkish side have built a star-studded side in recent years with names including Salah, who joined after ending a highly successful spell with Liverpool, his former Anfield team-mate Fabinho and ex-Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drogheda United could be set to come up against Mohamed Salah after the League of Ireland side confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-612472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}