Craig Gordon joined up with his Scotland teammates to fly out to their pre-Euro 2020 training camp this afternoon.
Steve Clarke is taking his players to Spain for some warm weather training at La Finca and the Hearts ‘keeper was on the plane after a fine first season back in maroon.
The 38-year-old was one of the standouts as Robbie Neilson’s team won the Championship title and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking.
And now he’s being tipped to claim the number one spot for his country at this summer’s tournament.
Hero of Serbia David Marshall was arguably at fault for Austria and Israel goals in March’s qualifiers before Gordon got the nod to play against the Faroe Islands.
Despite Derby County avoiding relegation from the English Championship on the final day of the season, Marshall was dropped by Wayne Rooney after a loss of fitness and form.
There’s now a strong case for making Gordon number one, although it’s likely both will get a run out in upcoming friendlies.
Rangers and former Hearts goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin makes up the goalkeeping trio.
Despite a long career, this is Gordon’s first international tournament appearance with Scotland not having qualified for one in 23 years.
He and and his teammates headed for Spain earlier today from Glasgow Airport for a training camp.
While there, they’ll take on the Netherlands and Luxembourg in friendlies to get them ready for their three crunch clashes next month.
First up is the Czech Republic at Hampden on 14 June before the invasion of Wembley three days later.
Croatia are the finals opponents back in Glasgow before hopefully progressing to the knock-out stages for the first time ever.
