Seamus Coleman Documentary

Seamus Coleman will be honoured by Everton with the release of a documentary on the Ireland captain.

The feature-length presentation, called SEAMUS, will soon be available to watch on the Goodison Park club’s official YouTube channel.

It is packed with interviews from family, friends, coaches and teachers in Coleman’s hometown of Killybegs, County Donegal.
The documentary goes into his time at Sligo Rovers, his development under two-time FAI Cup winning Bit O’ Red boss Paul Cook and the famous £60,000 move to the Toffees.

Also interviewed is his former manager David Moyes and Ian Holloway, who worked with the player during his 2010 loan spell at Blackpool.

Leighton Baines, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Idrissa Gana Gueye also feature, while there is one star guest whose view on Coleman is sure to be fascinating.

President Michael D Higgins is an avid League of Ireland fan and life-long Galway United supporter, and he is still a regular at senior Ireland games.

Coleman has made over 420 appearances for Everton and has been capped 72 times by Ireland.

Willie McStay, a scout at Celtic during Coleman’s time at Sligo Rovers, recently told MirrorSport how the young Donegal native arrived at Everton in January 2009.

McStay brought Coleman on trial at Celtic, but the club opted against signing him as they had plenty of cover at right-back at the time. So he alerted his close pal Moyes to the youngster.

“Moyesy knew he was in at Celtic and he did well at Celtic,” he said last January. “At that time the right full-back position, we had Mark Wilson and we had a couple of young boys in as well.

“Moyesy phoned me up and asked me how ‘the boy from Ireland’ did. I said, ‘He did really well’.

“At that stage he’d gone back to Sligo Rovers and Moyesy said, ‘What do you think?’. I said, ‘Well, if we were able to sign him, we would have’.

“So he asked if I’d recommend him and I said, ‘Aye, definitely, if you are looking for a player in that position to develop, then yeah, go for it’.

“That was it, he was sold on it. He phoned me back a couple of months later and said, ‘Thanks for that; he’s gone from £60,000 to £6 million!’.”