A teenage Loughborough College student has been called up to the Northern Ireland senior football squad for the first time.
Seventeen-year-old Nottingham Forest striker Dale Taylor received his first call-up to the Northern Ireland senior squad on 4th November 2021.
He is a studying a BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate in Sport at Loughborough College as part of our partnership with the Nottingham Forest academy.
The former Linfield teenager has been included by manager Ian Baraclough for next week's final World Cup qualifying matches at home to Lithuania and Italy on 12th and 15th November.
Linfield academy graduate Taylor signed his first professional contract at Forest in December after moving to the Championship outfit last summer.
After recovering from an ankle injury, he has impressed for Forest's Under-23s this season. He scored for Northern Ireland Under-21s against Scotland in the summer and has captained his country at Under-19 level.
Taylor made his senior debut for Linfield aged just 15, scoring against Cliftonville in the County Antrim Shield, and made a handful of first-team appearances before moving to the City Ground.
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