{"id":491698,"date":"2026-03-24T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491698\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:30:09","slug":"full-schedule-on-norwich-city-players-on-international-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491698\/","title":{"rendered":"Full schedule on Norwich City players on international duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  McConville, included in Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s Northern Ireland squad, will face Italy in a crucial World Cup play-off semi-final in Bergamo. Should they defeat the Italians, they will play the winners of the semi-final between Wales and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will also be away from home.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was touch and go whether the defender would be fit after picking up a knee injury in the Canaries\u2019 3-0 FA Cup defeat to Leeds at Elland Road. Having missed the home wins over Sheffield United and Preston, he returned to play in Norwich\u2019s last two Championship games before the break, away at Southampton and Charlton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anis Ben Slimane and Ali Ahmed will be on opposite sides when Tunisia face Canada in a friendly in Toronto in the early hours of Wednesday morning UK time, just two days before Norwich take on Portsmouth on Good Friday. Philippe Clement has been vocal about his concerns over the scheduling in a recent press conference, with the pair only due back in the Colney building for one training session.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Slimane and Ahmed will meet in Toronto (Image: Paul Chesterton\/Focus Images Ltd)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Before then, Canada meet Iceland in Toronto, while Tunisia take on Haiti in the same city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jose Cordoba has two World Cup warm-up games, with Panama taking on South Africa twice in the same international window, one in Durban and one in Cape Town.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After scoring from the halfway line in Scotland\u2019s last game in November to seal qualification for this summer\u2019s finals, Kenny McLean is named in Steve Clarke\u2019s squad for friendlies against Japan and the Ivory Coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinkun.com\/sport\/norwich-city\/25954202.fisher-named-carsleys-young-lions-squad-qualifiers\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kellen Fisher<\/a> has a trip to Andorra before enjoying the home comforts of Carrow Road when the England under-21s face Moldova. Eroll Munde-Smith\u2019s recent cameos have earned him his first call-up to the Young Lions under-20 squad, and he is set to travel to Rome to face Italy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Young winger Elliot Myles has been selected in the Wales under-21 squad for the first time. He will take on Belarus at Newport\u2019s Rodney Parade before travelling to face Denmark.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Academy duo, Zach Baumann (Ukraine Under-19s) and Vatan Ozcan (T\u00fcrkiye Under-19s) are both in UEFA Under-19 EURO elite round action, aiming to secure a spot in this summer\u2019s final tournament in Wales.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Away from the current crop, former fan favourite Gabriel Sara has been called up to Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s Brazil squad for the first time and could make his debut in friendlies against France and Croatia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Former City star Sara could make his debut for Brazil (Image: Paul Chesterton\/Focus Images Ltd)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  FULL INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE INVOLVING NORWICH CITY PLAYERS\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wednesday 25\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ukraine U19 v Northern Ireland U19 (9am) &#8211; Zach Baumann\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Slovakia U19 v T\u00fcrkiye U19 (11am) &#8211; Vatan Ozcan\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Thursday 26\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Italy v Northern Ireland (7:45pm) &#8211; Ruairi McConville\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Friday 27\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Italy U20 v England U20 (3pm) &#8211; Errol Mundle-Smith\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  South Africa v Panama (5pm) &#8211; Jose Cordoba\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wales U21 v Belarus U21 (5:30pm) &#8211; Elliot Myles\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Andorra U21 v England U21 (6:30pm) &#8211; Kellen Fisher\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saturday 28\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ukraine U19 v Kazakhstan U19 (9am) &#8211; Zach Baumann\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  T\u00fcrkiye U19 v Hungary U19 (11am) &#8211; Vatan Ozcan\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Canada v Iceland (5pm) &#8211; Ali Ahmed\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Scotland v Japan (5pm) &#8211; Kenny McLean\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sunday 29\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tunisia v Haiti (12am) &#8211; Anis Ben Slimane\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tuesday 31\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  T\u00fcrkiye U19 v Italy U19 (2pm) &#8211; Vatan Ozcan\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Romania U19 v Ukraine U19 (3pm) &#8211; Zach Baumann\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Denmark U21 v Wales U21 (5pm) &#8211; Elliot Myles\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  South Africa v Panama (6:30pm) &#8211; Jose Cordoba\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  England U21 v Moldova U21 (7pm) &#8211; Kellen Fisher\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Scotland v Ivory Coast (7:30pm) &#8211; Kenny McLean\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wednesday 1\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Canada v Tunisia (12:30am) &#8211; Ali Ahmed, Anis Ben Slimane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McConville, included in Michael O\u2019Neill\u2019s Northern Ireland squad, will face Italy in a crucial World Cup play-off semi-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-491698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}