Brouder plays key role in United’s recent turnaround in fortunes

He may have played just 37 games for the club, but you feel Killian Brouder has been a long-term fixture at Galway United given the man’s presence both on and off the pitch.

The Limerick-born centre-back has been a cornerstone of a United defence that has not only kept a clean sheet in the last two games, but one that coughed up just one effort on target for their opponents over the course of those combined 180 minutes.

Brouder, who hails from Newcastle West, joined United in the summer of 2019 after spending a number of years at Limerick FC, and despite all the turmoil in the Treaty City in the past couple of years, he still retains a love of his former club, which he clearly identifies as Treaty United, despite a Limerick FC side entering both the U-17 and U-15 national league – and been drawn in the same pool as the Treaty United in the group stages of both leagues.

“I have a lot of time for this club, I have great time for Tommy, he helped me a lot with my career, I wish them all the best – just not when they play us,” he said of both Treaty United and their manager, Tommy Barrett, following United’s 1-0 win at the Markets Field on Friday night.

Padraic Cunningham headed home the all-important goal, but United’s victory was built as much on a rock-solid defence as it was on a brilliant finish from Cunningham, and Brouder took delight in as much.

“At the end of the day we want Conor [Kearns, United’s goalkeeper] to have nothing to do – if Conor doesn’t have a save to make, Mo and myself are delighted, long may it continue and we’ll keep building on it,” he said, the Mo in question being his centre-back partner, Maurice Nugent.

Brouder is a big man – he is as broad as he is tall – but not only in the physical sense, as he doesn’t shirk when it is put to him that United’s recent form is a far cry from a desperately poor start to the season.

“I don’t think it is that we are doing anything different, it is just that result didn’t go our way,” he says.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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