Irish National Coach PJ Nolan spent the past week in Tel Aviv coaching one of Israel's most promising junior players Shachar Ruberg.
PJ was invited by the youngsters parents to coach Shachar for a full week after meeting him at the European Under-19's in Russia.
According to PJ the weeks coaching went very well and he rates Shachar very highly and with his dedication and excellent support system thinks that he will have a big future in the game.
Shachar indeed will be travelling now to Ireland next month were he will take part in an event sponsored by an Israeli company called Ginko (An Oil and Gas Exploration Company).
The event will be held in the Ivy Rooms Academy under the supervision of PJ and will see Shachar up against some of Ireland's top juniors including Vinny Muldoon (2 Time Irish Champion), David Hogan (European Champion), Jason Devaney (Junior Pot Black Champion 2008), David Cassidy (Irish Under-16 No.1) and Greg Casey (European Under-19 Quarter Finalist).
The event will be played from Thursday the 13th of August to Saturday the 15th with an additional knockout event being planned for the Sunday. All matches will be the best of 9 frames and we hope to either stream some of the matches live or at least have the matches available to view on Foul4.com an hour or so after each match. The winner of the event will recieve 500 euro first prize with 950 euro available in all.
More details will be available soon on the event..
