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The World Cup is creeping ever closer and you can already feel international gears shifting into place as national teams start to fine-tune their plans.
Over the last week, several of Liverpool’s biggest names have found themselves right at the heart of that process in pre-tournament friendlies.
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Florian Wirtz has been in action for Germany in a warm-up 4-0 win against Finland, while Alisson made his second appearance in as many months for in for Brazil as they eased through a tune‑up clash with Panama 6-2.
That growing World Cup fever is mirrored in the women’s game, where England’s Lionesses are entering a crucial stretch in their own road to the 2027 tournament.
England have officially called up a Liverpool defender Grace Fisk to Sarina Wiegman’s June’s international camp. Arsenal captain Leah Williamson has been ruled out of this June window, opening the door for the Liverpool centre-back to join the group.
The 25-player squad report to St George’s Park ahead of a daunting away trip to Spain at the Estadi Mallorca Son Moix on Friday 5 June, before returning home to face Ukraine at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium on Tuesday 9 June.
Those two fixtures fall on matchdays five and six of UEFA’s European qualifiers for the 2027 Women’s World Cup, with the group running through to December 2026 before the final tournament kicks off in Brazil between 24 June and 25 July 2027.
Fisk has been involved with the Lionesses setup on multiple occasions – including her first senior call in 2020 and a recall under Wiegman in 2025 – but is still waiting for that elusive debut
Having captained England at youth level and the captain of Liverpool in the WSL, this latest selection for the World Cup European qualifiers against Ukraine and Iceland offers another real chance to finally step onto the pitch for her country.