Kildare complex just the first of a number of Irish venues Given and his business partners Arena Padel aim to bring the game to
‘You don’t have to be super fit or light on your feet and all sorts of people play the game’ – former Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given, above
Shay Given’s plan to build a state-of-the-art new sports complex for the booming game of padel at the Goffs horse-racing auctioneers site in Co Kildare is just the first of a number of venues he and his business partners in Arena Padel are planning nationwide, the former Republic of Ireland goalkeeper has told the Sunday Independent.
Given – the second most capped Irish footballer of all time after Robbie Keane – much prefers to play padel now rather than football in his spare time, he said.
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