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Ben White has received his first England call-up since November 2022 after replacing the injured Jarell Quansah in Thomas Tuchel’s squad to face Uruguay and Japan, with Harvey Barnes also receiving an inclusion in place of Eberechi Eze.<\/p>\n
Arsenal defender White has not featured for the Three Lions since he left their camp during the Qatar World Cup after an alleged bust-up with then-assistant Steve Holland.<\/p>\n
He later told head coach Gareth Southgate he did not want to be included for selection in the lead-up to Euro 2024 while current boss Thomas Tuchel first spoke to him ahead of naming his first squad last February, before eventually returning him to the fold more than a year later.<\/p>\n
The right-back played the whole of Sunday’s Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City but has made only seven Premier League appearances this season, totalling just 411 minutes overall.<\/p>\n
Barnes earns a call-up in place of White’s injured Arsenal team-mate Eze barely a month after turning down the opportunity to play for Scotland ahead of this summer’s World Cup.<\/p>\n
The Newcastle winger, who would have qualified for Steve Clarke’s side through his maternal grandparents, has one previous cap for England, featuring against Wales in a friendly in October 2020.<\/p>\n
Clarke revealed the 28-year-old had chosen to focus on regaining his place in the Three Lions’ set up following February’s Nations League draw, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: <\/em>“This time I can say for sure, Harvey’s going to concentrate on trying to play for England, he’s not going to come to Scotland.<\/p>\n “You can put that one out there. Nobody needs to ask me or Harvey about it any more. Am I disappointed? No, listen, Harvey can make up his own mind. We move on.”<\/p>\n More to follow… <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ben White has received his first England call-up since November 2022 after replacing the injured Jarell Quansah in Thomas Tuchel’s squad to face Uruguay and Japan, with Harvey Barnes also … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}