Community Spotlight: Glenside Celtic Soccer Club, fostering culture and community

By Ryan Genova | The Glenside Celtic Soccer Club is expanding a little more each year.

Founded in 2019 by Brendan Gallagher, Chris Scullion and Donal Walsh, the organization was initially an arm of the Glenside Gaelic Club. Logistics and internal rules led the trio to form a separate nonprofit to promote and preserve Irish culture in greater Glenside with an aim to replicate the strong Glenside community as part of the club.

“This a genuinely community-based club,” Gallagher, a Glenside native, said. “A lot of the new clubs are actually for-profit corporations with a Philly branch. It’s not exactly what U.S. Soccer wants to see. They want grassroots efforts.”

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Community Spotlight: Glenside Celtic Soccer Club, fostering culture and community