{"id":21428,"date":"2015-08-21T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/?p=21428"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:26:30","slug":"volkswagen-junior-masters-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/index.php\/volkswagen-junior-masters-launched\/21428","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Junior Masters launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Model Aoife Walsh was on hand with some soccer stars of the future to help Volkswagen Ireland launch the Volkswagen Junior Masters at the AUL complex in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>This exciting grassroots initiative continues Volkswagen\u2019s support for Irish Soccer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21429\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Volkswagen-sponsorship-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Model Aoife Walsh was on hand with Paul O\u2019Sullivan, Head of Marketing, Volkswagen Group Ireland, Ola Ibrahim and Josh Okpolokpo from Cherry Orchard FC and Cian O\u2019Malley and Reece McCormack from Crumlin United, to help Volkswagen Ireland launch the Volkswagen Junior Masters at the AUL complex.\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Volkswagen-sponsorship-copy.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Volkswagen-sponsorship-copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model Aoife Walsh was on hand with Paul O\u2019Sullivan, Head of Marketing, Volkswagen Group Ireland, Ola Ibrahim and Josh Okpolokpo from Cherry Orchard FC and Cian O\u2019Malley and Reece McCormack from Crumlin United, to help Volkswagen Ireland launch the Volkswagen Junior Masters at the AUL complex.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Paul O\u2019Sullivan, Head of Marketing, Volkswagen Group Ireland, commented: \u201cWe are delighted to have the opportunity to become part of such a prestigious competition and to support the stars of the future and to help them on their way. It is with great pleasure that I will welcome all our teams, managements, referees, media, parents and supporters to the A.U.L complex for the Volkswagen Junior Masters Ireland competition. While the winning of trophies is the aim, sport provides a wonderful opportunity to build long lasting friendships, learn important life skills and create memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that the Volkswagen Junior Masters will support younger players and help them to develop their soccer skills. It\u2019s also a wonderful way to connect with Irish soccer communities. I would like to wish all the players the very best of luck over what I am sure will be a very exciting weekend of soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are sixteen teams participating in this tournament played according to official FIFA rules.\u00a0 The group stages, in which there are four groups of four teams, will be played on Saturday 22nd\u00a0August with the semi-finals and finals taking place on Saturday 22nd\u00a0and Sunday 23rd\u00a0August. The Grand Final will take place at 2.30pm on Sunday 23rd\u00a0August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Model Aoife Walsh was on hand with some soccer stars of the future to help Volkswagen Ireland launch the Volkswagen Junior Masters at the AUL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dealerimporter","category-news","cat-8-id","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Volkswagen Junior Masters launched - Autotrade.ie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autotrade.ie\/index.php\/volkswagen-junior-masters-launched\/21428\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Volkswagen Junior Masters launched - 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