Mattie Clarke is a former soccer player from Dublin, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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Born in Dublin, he played for Shamrock Rovers F.C.

Shamrock Rovers F.C.

Shamrock Rovers Football Club are a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. They compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the most successful club in Irish football history. The club have won the League of Ireland title a record 17 times and the FAI Cup a record 24...

 (known as "the Hoops") for 12 seasons as a defender. However he joined Rovers in 1938 as a striker and scored a hat-trick in one of his first games for the club.

He won his one and only senior cap for the Ireland

Republic of Ireland national football team

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 on 10 May 1950 in a 5-1 defeat to Belgium in Brussels

Brussels

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In the 1950/51 season Mattie was awarded a testimonial for his twelve years service at Milltown

Milltown, Dublin

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. He then moved to Dundalk F.C.

Dundalk F.C.

Dundalk Football Club is a professional Irish football club based in Dundalk, County Louth. The club currently play in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. Founded in 1903, they are the second most successful team, in terms of trophies won, in the history of the League of Ireland. The...

. Signed for Waterford United

Waterford United

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 in August 1954 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1954/0806/Pg002.html#Ar00216:73520C7B32517C42AA7EA2BD7352F275E30578D2AA7B12BD.

His son Jackie Clarke (footballer)

Jackie Clarke (footballer)

Jackie Clarke was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s and 1970s.An amateur and youth international, Jackie was a defender who played for Shamrock Rovers and Bohemian F.C. amongst others during his career in the League of Ireland. Clarke came from a proud sporting family; his father Mattie...

 played for the Hoops in the 1970s.

Honours

• League of Ireland
  League of Ireland
  The League of Ireland is the national association football league of the Republic of Ireland. Founded in 1921, as a league of eight clubs, it has expanded over time into a two-tiered league of 22 clubs. It is currently split into the League of Ireland Premier Division and the League of Ireland...
  
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  • Shamrock Rovers 1938/39
• FAI Cup
  FAI Cup
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  • Shamrock Rovers 1940, 1944, 1945, 1948
  • Dundalk F.C.
    Dundalk F.C.
    Dundalk Football Club is a professional Irish football club based in Dundalk, County Louth. The club currently play in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. Founded in 1903, they are the second most successful team, in terms of trophies won, in the history of the League of Ireland. The...
    
    1952

Sources

• The Hoops by Paul Doolan and Robert Goggins (ISBN 0-7171-2121-6)