The Toughest Trade

This new ground-breaking documentary, commissioned by AIB explores how the AIB GAA Club Championships, which many believe are “the toughest of them all”, compare to other club games across the world. English footballer David Bentley and All Star baseball player Brian Schneider put the theory to the test. The professional sportsmen will trade places with Crossmaglen footballer Aaron Kernan and James Stephens’ hurler Jackie Tyrrell, both of whom will be sampling life as a Sunderland footballer and a professional baseball player respectively. All four players will be swapping professional and sporting lives, so while the GAA players will be experiencing all the benefits and demands that come with professional sports, Bentley and Schneider will have to quickly come to terms with a challenging training schedule, coupled with a full-time job. Viewers will see Brian Schneider swap a baseball bat for a hurley stick. The 6’3” former catcher with the Montreal Expos, the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies will be based in Kilkenny and will train and play with James Stephens while Kilkenny hurler Jackie Tyrrell heads to Florida to take part in spring training with a top major league baseball team. He’ll soon find out if his skill with the ash is transferable to life as a professional baseball player. In the second player swap, former Tottenham Hotspur player David Bentley will find out just what it takes to epitomise #TheToughest when he lines out with six times AIB GAA Club Championship winners Crossmaglen Rangers. Going in the other direction, Crossmaglen’s Aaron Kernan will discover just how tough it is to be a professional footballer when he signs for Sunderland FC.
The Toughest Trade is an AIB initiative, and the latest film from the #TheToughest campaign in support of the AIB GAA Club Championships. The hour long documentary was produced by the IFTA award winning Motive Television.
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