From holiday to Scotland cap - Doohan's 'crazy' week
Scotland goalkeeper Ross Doohan reflected on his "crazy" week after making his debut against Liechtenstein.In fact, in the space of a fortnight, the 27-year-old has won the Scottish Cup with Aberdeen before leaving the club, to cutting his holiday short to gain his first international cap.Doohan, who is reportedly set to return to Celtic this summer, was called up for the first time on Sunday amid a goalkeeper injury crisis.He would go on to make his debut for Scotland the following day, keeping a clean sheet in the 4-0 win in Vaduz."It was pretty crazy," Doohan told BBC Scotland. "I was on holiday in Turkey with my family, got the call quite early in the morning."I phoned my dad, who was in his room, told him I'd be leaving in the morning. So I told them when the flight got arranged, and then my mum and dad came and met me down at the reception."They said bye then that was me going to the airport. Thankfully I got the nod to play, it's a great honour to get my first cap."You get these games where you might not have a save, but it's all about concentration because anything can happen at any given time, so I was happy how the result went."
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