Manchester United´s Evans called up for national duty

Manchester United‘s Jonny Evans has been called up to the North­ern Ire­land squad for the World Cup qual­i­fy­ing encoun­ters against Rus­sia at the Loko­motiv Sta­dium on Septem­ber 7 and Lux­em­bourg four days later at Wind­sor Park. The highly ver­sat­ile defender has yet to play for the Reds this sea­son because of an ankle operation.

Born and brought up in the city of Bel­fast, Jonny Evans made his inter­na­tional debut for the North­ern Ire­land senior team in the unfor­get­table 3–2 vic­tory against Spain at Wind­sor Park in Septem­ber 2006. A mul­ti­func­tional foot­baller who is often used as a left-back, the 24-year-old Manchester United favour­ite has man­aged to rack up an impress­ive total of 29 full appear­ances for the coun­try of his birth so far. And even though North­ern Ire­land is a com­par­at­ively small coun­try, it has nev­er­the­less pro­duced some of the finest play­ers ever wit­nessed in the long his­tory of Brit­ish foot­ball. Jonny Evans: “Many Irish young­sters have real desire and hun­ger to suc­ceed, which bodes well for Irish football’s future.”

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