England

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Spain

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England U16s v Spain
International U16 Friendly
3pm, Saturday 28 April 2007
Wembley Stadium
08 December 2006
VIDEO: England 2-1 Scotland

Kenny Swain's Young Lions win the Victory Shield outright with a thrilling win over Scotland at Glanford Park.

England U16s attracted a fantastic crowd of 28,210 at Wembley, on a day when the Young Lions were competing with a full fixture list of domestic games.

In one of the biggest attendances of the day, Kenny Swain's side entertained the second set of fans to watch a game at Wembley and scored an impressive victory over Spain.

Brian Barwick was impressed by the turnout, and also the standard of football from a young group of players.

Barwick said: "It was a tremendous occasion for youth football to have so many supporters in the stadium watching the game.

"Together with the Under-21s game last month, it shows that there is a real interest in the development and progression of our youngest players and fans understand just how important the process is for these players to prepare for senior, first team football.

"It was a beautiful day and an exciting game, and I know that those young players will go away with some fantastic memories of their first game at Wembley.

"It was a youthful crowd, youthful players and Wembley of course is a youthful stadium. But I think that everyone will learn something from today, and for both the England players and Wembley I think the future is very bright."

Teams:

England: 1 Wesley Foderingham (Fulham) (13 Declan Rudd (Norwich City) 40), 2 Chris Solly (Charlton Athletic) (14 Adam Smith (Tottenham Hotspur) 40), 3 Ben Gordon (Leeds United), 4 Oliver Norwood (Manchester United) (15 John Bostock (Crystal Palace) 48), 5 Kyle Bartley (Bolton Wanderers) (12 Jack Rodwell (Everton) 40), 6 Thomas Cruise (Arsenal), 7 Matthew James (Manchester United), 8 Dean Parrett (Tottenham Hotspur), 9 Nathan Delfouneso (Aston Villa) (Adam Phillip (Chelsea) 73), 10 Harry Forrester (Watford) (16 Jacob Mellis (Sheffield United) 61), 11 Nicky Ajose (Manchester United) (18 Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur) 61)

Subs Not Used:

Spain: 1 Alejandro Sanchez Benitez (Angel Diez Ibanez 40), 2 Jose Manuel Morales Ramos, 3 Angel Martinez Ortega (12 Antonio Luna Rodriguez 40), 4 John Gaztanaga Arrospide, 5 Ruben Molero Cortes (c), 6 Alvaro Lopez Bermejo, 7 Imanol Eslava Arce (17 Fernando Ruiz Izaguirre 40), 8 Thiago (18 Daniel Nieto Vela 59), 9 Daniel Pacheco Lobato, 10 Antonio Miguel De La Torre, 11 Sergio Barcina Rodriguez (14 Alberto Delgado Quintana 40)

Subs Not Used: 15 Ramiro Mayor Ruiz, 16 David Vidal Fernandez,

Referee: Andy D'Urso

Attendance: 28,210