Donal Byrne - European Powerchair Football Association President - All About Ability #71

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This week guest I’m joined by president of European Powerchair football Association President Donal Byrne!

The European Powerchair Football Association is our sports equivalent to UEFA and donal has overseen an incredible growth throughout Europe for many years. We go through what the EPFA aim to achieve, process in getting new countries involved & aligning them with their association, organising tournaments, professionalising the sport for our athletes and much more.

We preview the EPFA cup being held in Geneva this week with nations Switzerland, Scotland, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, with top 3 teams qualifying for EPFA Nations cup, our equivalent of European Championships. Going into impact having debuting nations like Spain, Italy, Germany, involved and what they can bring to sport. He goes into expanding European Club competitions, UEFA pushing more mainstream clubs to get involved and the progress in making Powerchair Football a Paralympic Sport.

As you can see there was a lot to go through but it is always a pleasure to chat with Donal who had a big part to play in encouraging me to start this podcast. I took the chance to thank Donal for his dedication to our game, it’s an amazing effort. One of the Sports good guys and I can confidently say the EPFA is in safe hands, Donal we appreciate you. Hope everyone gives this a listen.

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