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Wed 03 Mar 2009Trapattoni confident Given will be fit
AS BULGARIAN boss Stanimir Stoilov scoured his contacts book yesterday in search of strikers still fit and available for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier at Croke Park, Giovanni Trapattoni insisted that Shay Given and Aiden McGeady will arrive into Dublin today to complete his Irish squad.
With the rest of the panel having come through yesterday’s first training session of the week at Malahide without any problems, Trapattoni appeared unconcerned by the fact that both men had stayed on at their clubs for an additional day of treatment on shoulder and foot injuries respectively.
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