ENGLAND NAME 21-MEMBER SQUAD FOR CUP

Kolkata, Sept. 26: England head coach Steve Cooper on Tuesday named a 21member squad for the U17 World Cup from October 6 to 28.

Cooper has included most of the players who helped England qualify for the World Cup after reaching the final of the U-17 European Championship last season.

The squad played two warm-up games in September, drawing against Brazil in Shrewsbury before suffering a 1-2 defeat against South Africa in Leek.

Jadon Sancho, who missed the September gettogether while completing a switch from Manchester City to Dortmund, is a new inclusion to the group.

Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher, who has impressed with his form at Stamford Bridge for their U-18s, has also been included in the England squad for the first time.

The 2011 quarter-finalists will travel to India this week for a pre-World Cup training camp in Mumbai, where they will play a warm-up game with New Zealand on October 1. After that, they will shift their base to Kolkata where they open their World Cup campaign against Chile on October 8. The squad: Goalkeepers: Curtis Anderson, Josef Bursik, William Crelin; Defenders: Timothy Eyoma, Joel Latibeaudiere, Marc Guéhi, Jonathan Panzo, Lewis Gibson, Steven Sessegnon, Morgan Gibbs White, Tashan Oakley Boothe; Midfielders: Conor Gallagher, Angel Gomes, Nya Kirby, George McEachran; Forwards: Jadon Sancho, Callum Hudson Odoi, Philip Foden, Emile Smith Rowe, Rhian Brewster, Danny Loader.