International call-up news
- Tue 01 Sep 2009, 10:07AM
- Posted byTim Oscroft
City team-mates Carlos Tevez and Robinho will go head-to-head in a mouth-watering World Cup qualifying clash this Saturday.
Argentina will be looking for home advantage to help them edge closer to securing a place in the top four of the South American group, which Brazil currently top.
That’s not the only potential City-related match-up of the forthcoming internationals, there could be two of City’s 2008 Youth Cup-winning side facing each other in Belfast next week. Vladimir Weiss and Ryan McGivern have been called up for Slovakia and Northern Ireland respectively, with those two countries battling it out for automatic qualification from European Group 3.
Full list of call-ups from City’s squad:
Richard Dunne & Shay Given: Cyprus v ROI, September 5th, and ROI v South Africa, September 8th.
Craig Bellamy: Wales v Russia, September 9th.
Kolo Toure: Ivory Coast v Burkina Faso, September 5th.
Nigel de Jong: Netherlands v Japan, September 5th, and Scotland v Netherlands, September 9th.
Martin Petrov: Bulgaria v Montenegro, September 5th, and Italy v Bulgaria, September 9th.
Carlos Tevez: Argentina v Brazil, September 5th, and Paraguay v Argentina, September 9th.
Robinho: Brazil v Argentina, September 5th, and Brazil v Chile, September 9th.
Tal Ben Haim: Israel v Latvia, September 5th, and Israel v Luxembourg, September 9th.
Vladimir Weiss: Slovakia v Czech Republic, September 5th, and N Ireland v Slovakia, September 9th.
Ryan McGivern: Poland v N Ireland, September 5th, and N Ireland v Slovakia, September 9th.
Gareth Barry, Wayne Bridge, Joleon Lescott & Shaun Wright-Phillips: England v Slovenia, September 5th, and England v Croatia, September 9th.
Gunnar Nielsen: Austria v Faroe Islands, September 5th, and Faroe Islands v Lithuania, September 9th.Emmanuel Adebayor: Togo v Morocco, September 6th.
Also called up from our junior ranks were Dedryck Boyata, Greg Cunningham, Abdi Ibrahim and Robbie Mak.
