Wales Number 1?

By Aston
September 27 2005

Ipswich Town goalkeeper Lewis Price could be a step closer to making his full Wales debut following an injury to Danny Coyne.

Coyne is likely to be out for the rest of the season with a cruciate ligament injury which he picked up playing for Burnley at the weekend leaving Price or the more experienced Paul Jones, but Price may have an edge over Jones as he is playing first team football.

 

Price: “I'm totally gutted for Danny but, obviously, it opens up a place for me with Wales.

 

“It is almost bad luck to talk about it after what happened last time and, until the Wales squad actually meet next week, I will not be thinking about it.

 

“I have two very important games for Ipswich coming up before then and I will be focusing on those.

 

“I would obviously love to play for Wales in the World Cup games but I'm not taking anything for granted.

 

“The game I was going to make my debut in was a friendly against Slovenia and, at international level, they are for experimenting. Whether the manager would start me in a World Cup qualifier is something else. Although we can't actually get to the World Cup, these games are still important for us because the higher we finish the better our seedings will be in the European Championship qualifiers next year.

 

“Even though Paul has been coaching us keepers, I know he still wants to play and he has a wise old head. Just because he has not been playing games, doesn't mean he won't be ready for Wales because his experience and training will mean he would be able to fit straight in.”

 

Source: EADT.

 

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