{"id":1087,"date":"2026-06-02T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:57:46","slug":"scotland-gordon-to-be-oldest-player-at-world-cup-but-gunn-handed-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Scotland: Gordon to be oldest player at World Cup but Gunn handed No 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon will be the oldest player at the World Cup this summer, but the 43-year-old has not been handed the No 1 shirt.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the submission of each of the 48 nations&#8217; official squad lists, Gordon will wear No 21, with fellow goalkeepers Angus Gunn and Liam Kelly assigned numbers 1 and 12 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United&#8217;s Tyler Fletcher has taken No 8 after the teenage midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn8pmj99jk7o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">became a surprise replacement<\/a> for the injured Billy Gilmour on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Striker Lyndon Dykes will wear Scotland&#8217;s No 9, fellow forward Che Adams No 10, and Lawrence Shankland No 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It remains to be seen how much those choices hint at the thinking of head coach Steve Clarke regarding his starting line-up, with centre-back Grant Hanley given No 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland have travelled to the US and will play their final World Cup warm-up game against Bolivia &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/m002xkgc\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">live on the BBC<\/a> &#8211; on Saturday at 21:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will then kick off their tournament schedule the following weekend against Haiti in Boston on Sunday 14 June (02:00) before facing Morocco and Brazil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon will be the oldest player at the World Cup this summer, but the 43-year-old has not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}