Rob Page revealed Mark Harris was the first player to learn of his World Cup squad inclusion after the Wales boss phoned the Cardiff City man by mistake.
Page was recently watching the Bluebirds live in Championship action to cast his eye over the 23-year-old forward as part of his preparations for the tournament later this month. However, just days after watching the frontman, head coach Page called Cardiff striker Harris having been trying to contact the Football Association of Wales' head of football operations Mark Evans.
“There was one person, one player, who I had to tell that he was in the squad," said Page in a Q&A shortly after the announcement of his squad at Tylorstown Welfare Hall.
"I went to watch Cardiff City play last Saturday. I went to watch Mark Harris. I went to phone Mark Evans in the week after the game, and this is how bad my eyes have gone, I accidentally phoned Mark Harris, and cancelled.
"Within two minutes he’s phoning me back. He’s obviously putting two and two together and gone ‘he watched me, I bet he’s phoning me to tell me I’m not in the squad’. I just had to message him to say ‘you’re in, don’t stress’. But everybody else had to wait.”
Harris is one of two Cardiff players included in Page's 26-man squad for the tournament in Qatar, with Rubin Colwill also set to be on the plane to Doha. The versatile attacker - who has five caps to his name - has netted three goals in 22 appearances for the Bluebirds this season.
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