FAI attempt to secure the release of Kohlman

THE FAI are involved in a tug-of-war with German authorities over the availability of Borussia Dortmund player Patrick Kohlman for Monday’s U-21 friendly international between Ireland and Germany in Turners Cross.

Kohlmann has played under Brian Kerr at youth level, is currently in the midst of his military service in Germany.

The 21-year-old Dortmund midfielder, who has an Irish mother, works with handicapped children in his civil military role and had arranged for other people to take over his duties during the time he hoped to be away with the Irish U-21 squad.