Striker Connor Wickham has been included in the England squad for their UEFA European U17 Championships first qualifying round group games. The matches, in Baku, Azerbaijan, are against the hosts, Serbia and Kazakhstan and will be played between October 26th and 31st.
The games clash with Town’s league match against Derby County and the Blues could withdraw the 16-year-old from the England squad if he is required for first team duty.
Earlier in the season, Wickham was pulled out of the England U17 squad playing in a friendly tournament in the Midlands to play in the games against Peterborough and Preston and last season Town withdrew him from an U16 party so he could make his senior debut against Doncaster.
Wickham has already won four caps at U17 level, scoring one goal, having played at the Nordic Tournament in Denmark in 2008 in which England annually field an U16 squad despite the competition being for the older age group.
England U17s: Benik Afobe (Arsenal), Ross Barkley (Everton), Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion), Jack Butland (Birmingham City), Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea), Luke Garbutt (Everton), Sam Johnstone (Manchester United), William Keane (Manchester United), Louis Laing (Sunderland), Josh McEachran (Chelsea), Ravel Morrison (Manchester United), Bruno Pilatos (Middlesbrough), Jack Robinson (Liverpool), George Thorne (West Bromwich Albion), Tom Thorpe (Manchester United), Connor Wickham (Ipswich Town), Luke Williams (Middlesbrough), Andre Wisdom (Liverpool).