AIDOMO Emakhu will have to wait to see if he will make his Ireland under-21 debut this week – after Tuesday’s scheduled friendly opponents failed to show up.
Emakhu, 19, is in Jim Crawford’s 26-man squad for friendlies against Ukraine and Kuwait in Austria. They were also due to face Gabon.
Crawford had wanted to give all of the squad matches minutes. He said that Ireland had not been given a reason for the decision.
“Hugely disappointed,” Crawford said. “Finding out so late in the day about it does not help because we had been planning everything, team meetings, training sessions to play this particular game.
“To be told so late in the day is a real mess.
“For me in this window, I wanted three games, I wanted to bring 26 players over to give them an opportunity of playing for the Ireland Under-21s
“And now, two games with 26 players, there is a lot of thinking to do.
“Players are disappointed, the whole staff are disappointed. Match contracts were signed, stamped, and to find out this morning is very disappointing.”
The squad are preparing for the Under-21 Euro qualifiers in September.
Former Shamrock Rovers attacker Emakhu has four caps and one goal for Ireland under-19s.
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