Jonny Evans' legacy as a Northern Ireland great is secure as the defender calls time on his 18-year international career.
Bookended by outings against Spain almost 18 years apart, Jonny Evans' Northern Ireland career has ended as it began., across more than a century of caps in between those first and last outings for his country, the 36-year-old Manchester United defender ensured that one of the most memorable debuts in Northern Ireland's history preceded one of the finest careers in the green jersey.
Fresh off a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Iceland at Windsor Park, Sanchez wanted fresh faces for a training game but was so taken by Evans' performance that he included him from the start only days later against a side who in the years to come would win the World Cup and a pair of European Championships.
"All three of them knew there was this young kid playing his first game and were probably thinking they would be able to get something out of him,"On the basis of that night, perhaps it should come as no surprise that unflappable has been the word used to describe Evans time and time again across his near two decades at the heart of Northern Ireland's defence.
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