Dominic Calvert-Lewin(Image: George Wood/Getty Images)
Leeds United striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin has earned a recall back to the England squad with the striker part of a huge 35-man squad named. It is the last squad get together before the summer and the World Cup, with England manager Thomas Tuchel saying he has picked a larger than normal squad to look at several players who have not been called up before.
England will play two friendlies with games against Marcelo Bielsa's Uruguay team on March 27, and a match with Ao Tanaka's Japan team on March 31. The plan is for Tuchel to rotate his squad for the two games, with a certain number of the squad not featuring for the full camp and both games, allowing a group of players the opportunity to have a rest.
Calvert-Lewin will hope he can be involved as much as possible as he tries to further his cause for a call-up this summer for the World Cup. The 29-year-old won the last of his 11 caps back in 2021 as part of the Euro 2020 squad, with a substitute appearance in the quarter-final win over Ukraine.
After a run of just one goal in his last nine games, Calvert-Lewin may have thought the squad selection had come at the wrong time, but his earlier season form and goal return has not been forgotten and he's been handed his reward with a call-up.
Brighton goalkeeper Jason Steele is a surprise inclusion with the 35-year-old uncapped, with the expectation he has been named with the prospect of joining the World Cup squad as a training goalkeeper. Trent Alexander-Arnold misses out on the squad, but Manchester United's Harry Maguire gets a recall.
Speaking about his enlarged squad, Tuchel said; "We decided to divide it into basically two camps almost, so we bring players in that we haven't seen, who haven't played so much to open up the picture, and the competition for plane tickets to the US.
"Then from Friday and Saturday, a group of players will come into camp - ten or eleven players who get a rest before and we will then go with a new group and mix of players into the match against Japan."
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**Goalkeepers:** Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), Jordan Pickford (Everton), James Trafford (Manchester City), Aaron Ramsdale (Newcastle United), Jason Steele (Brighton & Hove Albion)
**Defenders:** Dan Burn (Newcastle United), Marc Guéhi (Manchester City), Lewis Hall (Newcastle United), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), Tino Livramento (Newcastle United), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Nico O'Reilly (Manchester City), Jarell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen), Djed Spence (Tottenham Hotspur), John Stones (Manchester City), Fikayo Tomori (AC Milan)
**Midfielders:** Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), James Garner (Everton), Jordan Henderson (Brentford), Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United), Declan Rice (Arsenal), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa), Adam Wharton (Crystal Palace)
**Forwards:** Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Leeds United), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle United), Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Noni Madueke (Arsenal), Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Marcus Rashford (Barcelona, loan from Manchester United), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Dominic Solanke (Tottenham Hotspur)