UEFA European U19 Championship Elite Round
Minsk, Belarus
Monday 26 May to Saturday 31 May 2008
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The England U19 squad that will travel to Belarus next month for the Elite Round of qualifying for the European U19 Championships has been named.

The Young Lions have been placed in Group One and will take on their hosts Belarus along with Serbia and Poland as they aim to reach the Championship Finals, which will be held in the Czech Republic in July summer.

Brian Eastick's team have so far enjoyed a successful season, winning all but one of their seven games.

The first stage of qualifying took place in October when England won all three of their games against Iceland (5-1), Romania (6-0) and Belgium (3-1) to seal their place in the Elite Round.

Further friendly games with Belarus (4-0), Croatia (2-0) and Russia (3-1) have all been won, whilst the solitary reverse came against Germany, who ran out 1-0 victors in Elversberg last November.

New faces in the U19s squad include Daniel Gosling of Everton, Crystal Palace starlet Victor Moses and Manchester United's Daniel Welbeck (pictured above).

Squad in full:

Player

Club

Sone Aluko

Birmingham City (on loan to Aberdeen)

Ryan Bertrand

Chelsea (on loan to Norwich City)

David Button

Tottenham Hotspur

Andy Carroll

Newcastle United

Ciaran Clark

Aston Villa

Jack Cork

Chelsea (on loan to Scunthorpe United)

Kieran Gibbs

Arsenal

Daniel Gosling*

Everton

Joe Mattock

Leicester City

Victor Moses

Crystal Palace

Curtis Obeng

Manchester City

Krystian Pearce

Birmingham City

Fred Sears

West Ham United

Scott Sinclair

Chelsea (on loan to Crystal Palace)

Jason Steele

Middlesbrough

Daniel Sturridge

Manchester City

James Tomkins

West Ham United

Daniel Welbeck

Manchester United


* Withdrawn injured and replaced by Josh Walker of Middlesbrough.