After years of disputes between the Dublin based Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and the Belfast-based Irish Football Association (IFA), the FAI finally earned formal recognition by FIFA in 1923 and declared the team would compete as Republic of Ireland. Explore our football shirts with player names and numbers. Choose your favorite player and showcase your passion for the game. And much like the first half, in something we’ve certainly never seen before, there is not a scrap of added time in the Bernabéu. My agent’s already there and my girlfriend’s going – she planned the whole thing,’” Berhalter remembered Wright telling him.
