{"id":12411,"date":"2026-04-07T21:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:22:14","slug":"england-women-keira-barry-gets-first-call-up-as-freya-godfrey-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12411","title":{"rendered":"England women: Keira Barry gets first call-up as Freya Godfrey injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bay FC forward Keira Barry has been called up to the England squad for the first time for the upcoming Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers against Spain and Iceland.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barry, 20, moved to the United States from Manchester United in January and moves up from England Under-23s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She replaces London City Lionesses&#8217; forward Freya Godfrey, who has withdrawn with a shoulder injury and will remain with her club for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea defender Niamh Charles also returns to the squad, which expands from 23 players to 24, following her return from a dislocated shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charles, 26, has featured in Chelsea&#8217;s past three games and was part of the England squad who retained their European title in Switzerland last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-player squad will meet at St George&#8217;s Park on Tuesday before facing Spain on 14 April (19:00 GMT) at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England then take on Iceland in Reykjavik on Saturday, 18 April (17:30 GMT) hoping to maintain their winning start to their 2027 World Cup qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay FC forward Keira Barry has been called up to the England squad for the first time for the upcoming Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers against Spain and Iceland. Barry, 20, moved to the United States from Manchester United in January and moves up from England Under-23s. She replaces London City Lionesses&#8217; forward Freya Godfrey, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}