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Paul Bodin’s Welsh Squad Take On Turkish Challenge

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Head coach Paul Bodin is preparing his Wales team for the Uefa Under-19 Championship challenge. Bodin’s boys go to Antalya in Turkey for group matches against the hosts, Slovakia and Kazakhstan. Goalkeeper George Ratcliffe, Jack Bodenham, James Waite and Sion Spencer are the Cardiff City players in Bodin’s squad, while Swansea have had Brandon Cooper, […]

Head coach Paul Bodin is preparing his Wales team for the Uefa Under-19 Championship challenge.

Bodin’s boys go to Antalya in Turkey for group matches against the hosts, Slovakia and Kazakhstan.

Goalkeeper George Ratcliffe, Jack Bodenham, James Waite and Sion Spencer are the Cardiff City players in Bodin’s squad, while Swansea have had Brandon Cooper, Keiran Evans, Joe Lewis, Mason Jones Thomas, Liam Cullen and Oliver Cooper selected.

Brandon Burrows is the lone Wrexham player named, while Newport County’s Momodou Touray, currently on loan at Merthyr Town, has been called up.

The under-19 qualifying round comprises 13 groups of four teams playing in one-venue mini-tournaments. The top two from each progress to the elite round.

In the elite round, which will be played in the spring, those 26 qualifiers join the top two seeds, given a bye, in seven mini-tournament groups of four. Group winners then join the hosts in the finals that will be held in Poland.

Wales kick off qualifying against Slovakia on Tuesday, November 7 before facing Turkey three days later on Friday, November 10.

Their final match is against Kazakhstan on Monday, November 13.

Wales Under-19 squad: George Ratcliffe (Cardiff City), Adam Przybek (West Bromwich Albion), Billy Sass Davies (Crewe Alexander), Brandon Cooper (Swansea City), Jack Bodenham (Cardiff City), Mitchell Clark (Aston Villa), Joshua Williams (Aston Villa), Keiran Evans (Swansea City), Joe Lewis (Swansea City), Brandon Burrows (Wrexham), Dylan Levitt (Manchester United), Sion Spence (Cardiff City), Mason Jones Thomas (Swansea City), Liam Cullen (Swansea City), James Waite (Cardiff City), James Spruce (Bristol Rovers), Daniel Mooney (Fleetwood Town), Momodou Touray (Newport County, on loan at Merthyr Town), Pablo Martinez (West Bromwich Albion), Oliver Cooper (Swansea City).

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