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England U21s name 27-man long squad for Euro Finals

Posted by Team England at 11:16 on Wednesday 20 May 2015

England Under-21s head coach Gareth Southgate has named a long list of 27 players for this summer’s European Championship Finals. The Three Lions head to Czech Republic for the competition next month, for which Southgate is allowed to name a 23-man squad.

But with domestic fixtures still remaining for most of the players involved this month, Southgate has selected an initial longer squad which will be reduced before the group meet up to begin their preparations on Monday 2 June.

The majority of those who played a part in securing qualification for the Finals are included, with the competition's top scorer Saido Berahino and fellow striker Harry Kane named in the list.

There is a first call-up for young Chelsea midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who was a regular in the England U19s squad this season and recently made his Premier League debut for the Stamford Bridge club. Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Benik Afobe is also named in the squad, after an impressive campaign at Molineux in which he scored 32 goals in total, including his strikes from an earlier loan spell with MK Dons.

An England regular throughout the development teams over the years, the former Arsenal player has not featured for his country since February 2013 when he played in a 4-0 win for the U21s over Sweden in Walsall.

Goalkeepers
Marcus Bettinelli (Fulham)
Jonathan Bond (Watford)
Jack Butland (Stoke City)

Defenders
Calum Chambers (Arsenal)
Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur)
Luke Garbutt (Everton)
Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough)
Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal, loan to West Ham United)
Michael Keane (Burnley)
Liam Moore (Leicester City)
John Stones (Everton)
Matt Targett (Southampton)

Midfielders
Tom Carroll (Tottenham Hotspur, loan to Swansea City)
Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea)
Will Hughes (Derby County)
Jake Forster-Caskey (Brighton & Hove Albion)
Jesse Lingard (Manchester United)
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea)
Alex Pritchard (Tottenham Hotspur)
Nathan Redmond (Norwich City)
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton)

Forwards
Benik Afobe (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
Patrick Bamford (Chelsea, loan to Middlesbrough)
Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion)
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)
Danny Ings (Burnley)
Cauley Woodrow (Fulham)