Tommy Conway is decided to take advantage of his Scotland recall and safe a spot in Steve Clarke’s World Cup squad.
The 23-year-old Middlesbrough striker has been capped six instances and was an unused member of the squad for the 2024 European Championship in Germany.
However he was overlooked of the quick-fire 2026 World Cup qualifiers by Steve Clarke final 12 months, which ended with a never-to-be-forgotten 4-2 win over Denmark at Hampden Park.
The 23-year-old was watching at residence as Scotland beat Denmark 4-2 to qualify for the World Cup
“I was watching the game with my dad and we were bouncing around the living room and then that bit afterwards, seeing the celebrations, I wanted to be here.
“I needed to be celebrating with everybody.
“I believe that gave me that fireside within the stomach to ensure I bought right here in March.
“I missed out on the last three camps and my determination, the focus was always to get back in the squad and I’m just glad that I’m back just before the World Cup. Hopefully I can fight for my place.”
Conway final featured for Clarke in June 2025
Conway signed from Bristol Metropolis in August 2024 for a reported price of £4.5million and is his hoping to assist Kim Hellberg’s aspect into the Premier League as they sit 9 factors behind Championship leaders Coventry.
Nonetheless, the Boro attacker – who has notched eight instances this season – admits he needed to be included for Scotland’s March double-header towards Japan and Ivory Coast to have any probability of taking part in a component in the summertime.
“If I’m being completely honest, I knew I had to be in this camp to have a real chance of going to the World Cup.
“I set myself targets and objectives and I actually did decide to the method since November, by way of not getting in that camp and utilizing it as gasoline to ensure I bought into this one.
“That is like the primary field ticked and clearly the following field ticked is to get to the World Cup and I am doing every part I can to get there.
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Conway has scored eight instances within the Championship this season
“Playing for Scotland is the pinnacle for me.
“I’ve mentioned that every one alongside and for any footballer to play for his or her nation at a World Cup is so particular.
“This doesn’t come around often and this is the first World Cup in many years that Scotland will have been to, so to be able to say that I’ve been there is what I’m dreaming of. So hopefully I can make it.”
Scotland squad in full:
Goalkeepers: Scott Bain (Falkirk), Angus Gunn (Nottingham Forest), Liam Kelly (Rangers).
Defenders: Grant Hanley (Hibernian), Jack Hendry (Al Etiffaq), Dom Hyam (Wrexham), Ross McCrorie (Bristol Metropolis), Scott McKenna (Dinamo Zagreb), Nathan Patterson (Everton), Anthony Ralston (Celtic), Andy Robertson (Liverpool), John Souttar (Rangers), Kieran Tierney (Celtic).
Midfielders: Ryan Christie (Bournemouth), Lewis Ferguson (Bologna), Billy Gilmour (Napoli), Andy Irving (Sparta Prague), John McGinn (Aston Villa), Kenny McLean (Norwich), Scott McTominay (Napoli), Lennon Miller (Udinese).
Forwards: Che Adams (Torino), Tommy Conway (Middlesbrough), Findlay Curtis (Kilmarnock), Lyndon Dykes (Charlton Athletic), George Hirst (Ipswich).
Naismith ‘very optimistic’ Scotland could make World Cup knockout historical past
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Talking earlier this month, assistant Steven Naismith mentioned the probabilities of Scotland reaching the knockouts of a males’s main finals for the primary time
Scotland assistant coach Steven Naismith is feeling “very optimistic” about his nation’s probabilities of progressing past the group levels for the primary time.
The 51-time capped ahead, who performed below Clarke earlier than first becoming a member of his teaching employees in 2021, believes this present group of gamers can create much more historical past after ending the nation’s 28-year await World Cup qualification.
“If I’m honest, if you looked at the teams involved and our squad and where it’s at, before the draw even came out, I had a feeling that was our aim,” he instructed Sky Sports activities Information.
“The supervisor’s been very huge on this fashion again to once we narrowly missed out within the Ukraine play-off, that we won’t not simply get to the finals, we will undoubtedly progress.
“The games are all going to be tough, the conditions are going to be tough, but that’s the same for everybody.
“You are taking part in towards quite a lot of completely different nations that you do not come up as a lot towards. They’re going to be powerful video games, however I undoubtedly really feel we have what it takes throughout the group to progress and be the primary workforce to try this on the World Cup.
“What we’ve got is a squad of leaders who are at their prime, playing at big clubs to guide the potential younger guys in the squad as well.
“So we’re very optimistic. It is going to be arduous work, however we will certainly do all we will.
“This group have continuously excelled and made their own history. The next step, and what would be really nice for some of the guys, is to finish their career to be the ones that push through the group stage and into the knockout stages of a World Cup.”
