Teenage footballer, 15, gets day off school to make Football League debut for Plymouth
dailystar.co.ukPlymouth first-team squad ahead of their League 1 clash against Ipswich Town.Freddie Issaka, 15, will make the 600-mile round trip to Suffolk on Friday (March 25) before the 3pm kick-off at Portman Road the following day.
Argyle boss Steven Schumacher has already been on the phone to the youngster's Truro-based school to ask for special permission for him to travel.Schumacher told Plymouth Live: "I think he will probably travel with us.
We have to get permission to get him out of school. We will see how the squad is looking body-wise, and see how we get through training, and then if we have to make that call then we will be on the phone to the headmaster."Issaka became Argyle's youngest ever player, aged 15 years and 34 days when he appeared from the substitute's bench in the 2-0 Papa John's Trophy defeat away to Newport County last August.
But the striker is yet to make his Football League debut for the League 1 promotion-chasers.The teenager was an unused substitute when Schumacher's side beat Cheltenham Town 2-0 at Home Park on Tuesday evening.
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