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The Mohun Bagan Super Giant: Indian goalkeeper Vishal Kaith, who marked his long-awaited comeback to the national football team in a 3-0 win over Maldives in the FIFA International Friendly on Wednesday, has said that he considers the match as his debut, as it came after a long wait.

Kaith's fourth and fifth India caps, there were 2,377 days of wait and hard work. It is the longest gap between two appearances for a player in Indian senior men's team history.

The Indian custodian last featured for the national team during the 2018 SAFF Championship in Bangladesh, playing all four matches as India, participating with an U23 squad, finished runners-up. Incidentally, the final was a defeat to Maldives, the same opponents against whom Kaith made a comeback.