I'd be pretty surprised (and very disappointed) if Tottenham didn't release LWB for the tournament, I think his only likely first team involvement is the league cup, but don't see that now after drawing Newcastle away, and that's 5 days before Englands first game.
England U18 Lineup To Face France Owen Asemota (GK) Wes Okoduwa Bendito Mantato Harrison Miles Jun’ai Byfield Freddie Simmonds Ryan McAidoo Seth Ridgeon (C) Chizzy Ezenwata Igor Tyjon Reigan Heskey
Lucas Daka (Reading) & Kachinga Siame (Villa) have been named in Zambia's provisional squad. Daka is an '09, attended an U15 camp with us a couple of years ago. Siame is a club U15 so '09 or '10.
I guess you have to presume their Clubs don’t want them going to the World Cup? I gonna presume we’re going to take a second string squad to the World Cup aren’t we?
Starting XI today: Awesu (GK), Headley, Emenalo, Ibrahim, Upson, Braithwaite, Burrowes, Walsh, Thompson, Ezenwata, Rodriguez.
From the first game. It is a brief and individual focused clip but the play looks more structured than what happened at the U17 Euros. 1976646168701747687 is not a valid tweet id
England: 1 Lanre Awesu (West Ham United), 2 Dante Headley (Manchester City), 3 Landon Emenalo (Chelsea), 4 Ife Ibrahim (Arsenal), 5 Elijah Upson (Tottenham Hotspur), 6 Kaden Braithwaite (Manchester City), 7 Bradley Burrowes (Aston Villa), 8 Reggie Walsh (Chelsea), 9 Alejandro Rodriguez (Olympique Lyonnais), 10 Chizaram Ezenwata (Chelsea), 11 Tynan Thompson (Tottenham Hotspur) Substitutes: 12 Wesley Okoduwa (Wolverhampton Wanderers) for Headley 63’, 13 Jack Porter (Arsenal) for Awesu 46’, 14 Chinaza Nwosu (Nottingham Forest) for Walsh 63’, 15 Jun’ai Byfield (Tottenham Hotspur) for Elijah Upson 75’, 16 Freddie Simmonds (Brighton & Hove Albion) for Braithwaite 63’, 17 Bendito Mantato (Manchester United) for Emenalo 63’, 19 Benjamin Casey (Crystal Palace) for Rodriguez 46’, 20 Igor Tyjon (Blackburn Rovers) for Ezenwata 46’, 21 Reigan Heskey (Manchester City) for Thompson 63’, 23 Ryan McAidoo (Manchester City) for Bradley Burrowes 63’, 24 Harrison Miles (Manchester City) for Ibrahim 46’ Substitutes not used: 18 Seth Ridgeon (Fulham) Head coach: Neil Ryan Goals: Tyjon 70’, Heskey 78’
I can’t find the regulations for this upcoming 2025 World Cup. Considering it is a longer format tournament does that mean the squads will be bigger? It is normally 21 players with three having to be keepers. Having only 18 outfield options for potentially nine games in three and a half weeks seems a bit tough? I’ve got no idea who Ryan is going to pick in quite a few roles. We don’t seem to have many settled roles.
It’s 21 players according to this https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/5c308779ec05eb77/original/FU17WC25-regulations_EN-1.pdf
Thanks. Not ideal. Especially when we made a bit of a pigs ear of the Euros squad. Could have done with an extra option or two.
Any ideas when this squad will be named, as seen several counties have already announced their final player list?
They seem to be showing a bit more interest in this now so hopefully soon, last time out think we had to wait for it to be on the FIFA website
Clearly he seems a really good player but he’s a big kid for his age. Physically he should be in a good place to transition to senior football you would think.
As I recall, Reggie Walsh didn't go to the UEFA U17 competition earlier this year as he was playing for Chelsea against Djurgården in the Conference semi-finals. And Bendito Mantato was selected but withdrew. We'll see if they get tournament experience this time. Is Finlay Gorman also injured? He wasn't named in most recent squad either. There was a penalty shootout after that match which France won 5-4. Wonder if Colombia are interested in him. Another goalkeeper from London, Alexéi Rojas, earned a Bronze medal with them at U20 World Cup yesterday. A lad I know who watches Tottenham academy teams reckons Byfield rather than Hardy/Upson is the central defender to get excited about. Byfield was on the bench against Villa today. Dowman, Ngumoha, Mfuni and Monga have been promoted to U19 side so doubt they're going. Guess the likes of Louis Page, Williams-Barnett and Howell are uncertain. Don't remember many players missing this tournament before. Ryan Sessegnon was already playing for Fulham (and England U19) so didn't attend 2017 and Borussia Dortmund only let Sancho play group stage that year. Were there any others?
He hasn’t featured for City in a fair while so I believe so, he’s had a few injury issues in the past few years unfortunately.
Could be wrong but I recall seeing Gorman watching a game from the sidelines while wearing a protective boot the other week.