17-year-old Ross Barkley is set to join clubmate Jack Rodwell on the international stage after the duo were called up to the England U21 squad for the forthcoming games against Azerbaijan and Israel.
Boss Stuart Pearce has named a 27-man squad for the two games and it includes a host of fresh faces, one of which is midfielder Barkley.
England face Azerbaijan in their opening group 8 game at Vicarage Road on Thursday, 1st September before playing a friendly with Israel on Monday, 5th September at Barnsley.
The full squad is; Ben Amos, Jack Butland, Declan Rudd, Nathan Baker, Joe Bennett, Matthew Briggs, Steven Caulker, Craig Dawson, John Flanagan, Phil Jones, Martin Kelly, Kyle Walker, Andre Wisdom, Ross Barkley, Dan Gosling, Jordan Henderson, Emmanuel Frimpong, Henri Lansbury, Josh McEachran, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jack Rodwell, Jonjo Shelvey, Nathan Delfouneso, Marvin Sordell, Martyn Waghorn, Danny Welbeck, Connor Wickham.
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