Ballyclare Comrades is pleased to announce the signing of experienced Irish League defender, Howard Beverland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The 31-year-old defender joins the Comrades from Coleraine FC, bringing a wealth of experience to the club after playing at the highest level in the country for 14 years with Coleraine and Crusaders, where he lifted the Irish Premiership Title, the Irish Cup and Co. Antrim Shield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s great to be here,\u201d said our new signing. \u201cI\u2019m hungry to play and embrace a new league. I\u2019ve played in the Premiership for the last 14 years or so but the standard has increased across all levels and it\u2019s great to come and challenge in this tough Championship. There\u2019s a very clear focus and aim to push on at the club, everyone giving their best to work for each other, and we\u2019ll see where that takes us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI\u2019m absolutely delighted and over the moon,\u201d said Paul Harbinson. \u201cI want to pay a massive thanks to Oran Kearney, he made it so easy and was fantastic with us. Howard is a cup winner, a league winner, he\u2019s done it, he knows how to manage games. He brings professionalism, experience, he\u2019s an absolute gentleman, so easy to work with, and I\u2019m really looking forward to working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Howard will wear the number 12 shirt this season. Want to show support for Howard? You can sponsor him for \u00a320 for the season and you will get your name\/business listed beside Howard on our Sponsor A Player<\/a> page, as well as a photo opportunity with him. You can sponsor Howard here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome to Dixon Park, Howard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ballyclare Comrades is pleased to announce the signing of experienced Irish League defender, Howard Beverland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comrades.itsmighty.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}