City’s number one is likely not only to face Robinho, currently on loan with Santos, but former City team-mate Elano as well in the friendly that takes place on neutral territory in north London.
Young left-back Greg Cunningham, who made his City debut against Scunthorpe just over a month ago, also received his first call-up into the senior Irish squad as Geovanni Trappatoni looks to build for the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign.
A host of other City players are on international duty this week:
Tuesday:
Robbie Mak: Slovakia U21s v Turkey U21s
Wednesday:
Nigel de Jong: Netherlands v USA
Shaun Wright-Phillips, Gareth Barry, Joleon Lescott: England v Egypt
Vincent Kompany, Belgium v Croatia
Roque Santa Cruz: Paraguay v Atletico Bilbao (friendly in Bilbao)
Carlos Tevez: Argentina v Germany in Munich
Kolo Toure: Ivory Coast v South Korea
Patrick Vieira: France v Spain
Ryan McGivern: N Ireland v Albania
Micah Richards: England U21s v Greece U21s
Dedryck Boyata: Belgium U21s v Malta U21s
Abdi Ibrahim: Norway U19s
