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- شون مكافري (بالإنجليزية: Sean McCaffrey) هو لاعب كرة قدم أيرلندي، ولد في 12 سبتمبر 1959 في Monaghan في جمهورية أيرلندا، وتوفي في 30 ديسمبر 2017. لعب مع Monaghan United F.C. . (ar)
- Sean McCaffrey (12 September 1959 – 30 December 2017) was an Irish football manager. A talented footballer in his youth, Sean spent time at Leicester City F.C. between 1977–78 and West Bromwich Albion F.C. 1978-1979, before sustaining a neck injury and a detached retina playing a reserve match for West Bromwich Albion F.C., that kept him from playing soccer for over a year. He returned to Ireland just turning 20-years-old in 1979. His friend and mentor Patrick Vincent Turley (commonly known as PVT a sportswriter, for the local newspaper, The Northern Standard) encouraged him to get involved with coaching. He began coaching Rossmore Celtic (local men’s team that no longer exists) and Monaghan Youths Team (local youth team that no longer exists) in his native Monaghan Town. Sean established Monaghan Youths and got a lot of the young local players experience by loaning them to Cookstown Boys Club, Cookstown, Northern Ireland for three seasons. They played mainly in the Ulster Youth League and Cup in Northern Ireland but gained experience in playing against Irish League Youth Teams such as Portadown, Glenavon, Linfield etc. Sean was one of the driving forces behind getting the newly formed Monaghan United F.C. (an amalgamation of 2 local Junior teams in Monaghan Town and Monaghan Hibernian) into the League of Ireland B-Division league in 1983 and at just 23 years old, he still holds the record as the youngest ever League of Ireland manager in history. Unfortunately, he parted company with the club on 8 January 1987. In 1989, Sean founded Oriel Celtic F.C., a schoolboy club in Monaghan Town. The club quickly developed from one U-15 boys’ team into U-8, U-10, U-12, U-14, U-16, U-18 boys’ teams and U-14 and U-16 girls’ teams within two seasons, and went on to win several European competitions, including the U-16 Holland Cup in August 1991, the U-14 London Cup in August 1992, and runners-up of the U-15 Marne Trophy in April 1994 (with the North-Eastern Counties Representative Team). As a result of the contacts, he made on his travels, Sean was able to invite the youth teams of clubs such as Queens Park Rangers F.C., Liverpool F.C., Manchester United F.C. and AFC Ajax to Monaghan, Ireland to play against Oriel Celtic F.C. in friendly matches. In 1999, McCaffrey joined the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) as the Northeast Regional Development Officer (RDO) for the Monaghan, Cavan, Louth and Meath. Two years later, Brian Kerr and Noel O’Reilly brought him in to coach with the Republic of Ireland underage teams. When Brian Kerr was appointed senior manager in 2003, Sean was the obvious choice as caretaker manager and he impressed taking the U-19s close to qualification for the 2003 European Championship and, after also earning good results with the current batch of U-19s, he was given the chance to take over as manager of the U-19 and U-17 teams on a full-time basis. In 2003, his first full-time year in charge saw Ireland go agonisingly close to qualifying for the European U-19 Championship Finals and that would typify how they fared for the next couple of years. Sean won several tournaments during his reign as an Irish International Youth Coach including the U-17 Norðurlandamót (Nordic) Cup in Iceland in August 2005, the U-19 La Manga Cup in April 2006 and the U-18 Lisbon Trophy in March 2007. During Sean’s reign as Ireland Youth boss, he blooded a plethora of current senior Internationals including Joey O’Brien, Paul McShane, Darron Gibson, Andrew Keogh, Stephen O’Halloran, Stephen Elliot, Aiden McGeady, Anthony Stokes, Stephen Gleeson, Harry Arter, Robbie Brady, Jeff Hendrick, John Egan, Darren Randolf, and Shane Long despite his first eight qualifying campaigns in both age-groups ending without qualification. That all changed in March 2008 when he guided the U-17s to the European Championships. He was the first team manager of League of Ireland Premier Division side Dundalk taking over in January 2012, replacing Ian Foster. Sean left the club by mutual consent in July 2012. He died on 30 December 2017 from heart failure (en)
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