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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Will Unwin

How six Britons could play in one game in Slovakia’s ‘fast track’ top flight

Kai Brosnan and Kido Taylor-Hart with their club in Slovakia, Zemplín Michalovce.
Kai Brosnan, a former non-league footballer, and Kido Taylor-Hart (right), who was with Arsenal, of Zemplin Michalovce in the Slovakian top division. Photograph: MFK Zemplín Michalovce

“I wish I’d done it a bit younger,” says the former Manchester United midfielder Sean Goss of moving abroad. He is one of six Britons who could do battle when AS Trencin host Zemplin Michalovce on Saturday in a battle of eighth v sixth in the Slovakian top flight.

Trencin have Goss, Roshaun Mathurin, a graduate of Tottenham’s academy, and Cody David, who went through the ranks at Everton. Zemplin’s squad includes two players who started at Arsenal, Kido Taylor-Hart and Ben Cottrell, and Kai Brosnan, who had played non-league football until joining them last summer. There are further British links at Trencin because Markus Poom, the son of the former Estonia goalkeeper Mart, was born in Derby.

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