Former Republic of Ireland international David McGoldrick has opened the door to a potential recall ahead of the crucial World Cup play-off semi-final against Czechia.<\/p>\n
The Barnsley striker had retired from international duty in November 2020<\/a> after 14 caps and one goal for the Boys in Green.<\/p>\n But the 38-year-old has enjoyed an excellent run of form in English League One of late, scoring eight goals in his last ten league games for a Barnsley side managed by his ex-Ireland team-mate Conor Hourihane.<\/p>\n That form has been rewarded with the EFL League One Player of the Month for February.<\/p>\n But it has also fueled speculation about a sensational recall to the Ireland squad amid an injury crisis among the strikers ahead of the 26 March play-off match in Prague.<\/p>\n AS Roma loanee Evan Ferguson has ruled out after ankle surgery, Swansea’s Adam Idah is yet to return from injury and there has been a lack of recent game-time for Sheffield United winger Chiedozie Ogbene.<\/p>\n On Friday, McGoldrick did not rule out coming to Ireland’s aid if called upon by Heimir Hallgrimsson, who will name his squad for the Czech game next Thursday.<\/p>\n But the veteran forward indicated that he has not been contacted about a potential call-up as of yet.<\/p>\n “I’ve heard a lot about it,” he told Sky Sports<\/a> of the speculation.<\/p>\n “I’ve had a lot of messages. I looked at my Instagram the other day and I’ve got Ireland flags everywhere saying ‘come home unc’.<\/p>\n “I would reconsider (retirement). I don’t know what’s happening. I know there’s lots of injuries, and I don’t know. I haven’t heard anything.<\/p>\n “I don’t really want to go too deep in it. I’ve been watching as a fan ever since I retired from 2020 I think it was.<\/p>\n “I’m here, I’m scoring goals. I’m just concentrating on scoring for Barnsley at the minute and what will be will be.”<\/p>\n \n Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Republic of Ireland international David McGoldrick has opened the door to a potential recall ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-344609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}