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Quartet Could Win Caps - Ipswich Town News

Town quartet Kevin Bru, Tommy Smith, Andre Dozzell and Tristan Nydam could all pick up caps over the next 24 hours.

Bru’s Mauritius open their 2019 African Cup of Nations qualification campaign away against Comoros in Mitsamiouli at midday UK time before facing the same opposition at home on Tuesday.

Paris-born Bru, 28, has previously won seven caps for the nation he qualifies for via his parents.

Dozzell and Nydam, both 17, are with the England U18s, who take on Qatar in the second of their friendlies at the Aspire Sports Village in Doha this afternoon having beaten Saudi Arabia 2-0 in the first on Wednesday.

That game saw Dozzell take his U18s caps total to seven, while Nydam was an unused sub and will hope to make his debut for the Young Lions today. They face Qatar again in another friendly on Monday.

Tommy Smith and New Zealand are in action against Fiji in Laukota in the early hours of Saturday morning in the first of two World Cup qualifiers against the same opposition with the second game in Wellington on Tuesday.

Smith, 26, has previously won 29 caps, scoring two goals, but will be making his first All Whites appearance since November 2014 having recently returned to the international fold.

New Zealand currently top their qualification group and look set to progress to the next stage where they will meet the winners of the other Oceania qualification group in a two-legged play-off.

The side which wins that will face the team which finishes fifth in the South American qualification group in an inter-confederation play-off for a place at the finals in Russia in the summer of 2018.

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