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Benched at his club, World Cup is focus for NIreland keeper

November 04, 2017

GENEVA (AP) — When you have the World Cup, who needs the English second division?Northern Ireland goalkeeper Michael McGovern will represent his country’s national soccer team on Thursday in a playoff game against Switzerland in Belfast — his fifth World Cup qualifying game this season.That is five more league games than he has played this season for Norwich, his team in England.The only competitive club action McGovern had was a game in August in England’s second-string cup competition. It was against a third-tier team.That preparation doesn’t seem ideal to help Northern Ireland return to the World Cup for the first time since going to Mexico in 1986, weeks before McGovern’s second birthday.Yet McGovern’s seven shutouts in 10 qualifying group games — conceding only in two losses to Germany, and an own-goal in the last match against Norway — is among the world’s best records on the road to Russia.He is in the good company of goalkeepers for a World Cup-bound country who are stuck on the bench in English leagues. Argentina’s Sergio Romero cannot dislodge David de Gea at Manchester United. David Ospina is first choice for Colombia but behind Petr Cech at Arsenal.Still, goalkeepers are different, and newly appointed…

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