HECTOR KYPRIANOU ON HIS CYPRUS CALL
By Chris Dunlavy
International debuts don’t come much tougher than Hector Kyprianou’s recent bow for Cyprus. Watched by a horde of emotional friends and family, the Peterborough midfielder was played out of position against a Norway side some 80 places higher in the FIFA rankings.
And his direct opponent on the night? None other than Erling Haaland, the world’s most fearsome centre-forward.
“I played on the left of a back three, so I came up against him pretty much constantly,” says Kyprianou, who was born in Enfield to a British mother and Cypriot fath...
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