Northern Irish side Larne will take on Norwegian club Molde in the UEFA Conference League after becoming the first Irish Premiership team to reach this stage of a European competition. The Inver Park side qualified in dramatic fashion, defeating Gibraltarian side Lincoln Red Imps in the play-off stage.
From the second tier of Northern Irish football to a debut in a major European competition in the space of five years, Larne will break new ground when they take on Molde in the Uefa Conference League on Thursday .
Prior to Larne's landmark achievement, Linfield had come closest to breaking through the glass ceiling of European qualification when they were one kick of a ball away from success in 2022."Someone said ‘did you think we’d ever be here?’. To be honest, no," the 31-year-old told BBC Sport NI in Norway.Luck did not have an awful lot to do with it. It has been a long journey, with bumps in the road, but Larne's success did not happen overnight.
For Cosgrove, who admitted the "butterflies are starting" as kick-off draws near, Lynch was the man who grew that belief."Obviously you need somebody to help you, and Kenny has done that and all the volunteers and everyone at the club.When asked why he was the man to make his players dream, Lynch replied that he is "a massive believer and advocate of Irish League football".
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