Hege Riise announces his squad against Northern Ireland

England’s interim head coach named the players she wants to use in their friendly match against Northern Ireland. Carly Telford, Nikita Parris and Beth Mead were absent in her list.

Here is what she said about her squad:

"I am looking forward to leading my first international camp with England. I have watched a lot of England and club matches and believe this is a group of players who are capable of winning at a major tournament.

"My work from now until Sarina Wiegman’s arrival is to develop their ability, playing style and physical conditioning to contribute to future success – this summer and beyond.

"It is great for the players to have an official fixture to look forward to and is an opportunity to implement everything they have worked on from previous training camps."

Here is what FA’s director Campbell says about England’s national team:

"When you see the list of players coming to camp, you will perhaps see some people missing that you would expect to see there, but we've got three or four really important things that we're looking at in preparation for the Team GB squad in Tokyo.

"Physical condition is going to be absolutely key. The fact that people need to be playing week in and week out is really important to us.

"The second part of what we're looking at is mental toughness and mental resilience. That ability to cope with a result that perhaps wasn't quite where you wanted, or the fact you didn't get off the bench or whatever.

"Thirdly, we really want to make sure that people are versatile. When we go into the Olympics, we will only have a squad of 18, which is much smaller than we'd normally have. Those factors are really critical in terms of the selection that we do now for camp and the selection we do going forward."

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