{"id":178697,"date":"2025-10-04T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178697\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:08:09","slug":"wales-u21-charlie-crew-kai-andrews-and-dakarai-mafico-in-squad-for-belgium-and-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178697\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales U21: Charlie Crew, Kai Andrews and Dakarai Mafico in squad for Belgium and Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior internationals Charlie Crew and Kai Andrews have been named in the Wales Under-21 squad for this month&#8217;s Euro 2027 qualifiers against Belgium and Austria, while there is a first call-up for Cardiff City&#8217;s Dakarai Mafico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matty Jones&#8217; side are looking to bounce back after losing their opening Uefa Under-21 Championship qualifying game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cdx26lxzwlyt#Report\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-2 to Denmark in Newport in September.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds&#8217; Crew, who is on loan at Doncaster, and Coventry City&#8217;s Andrews, both 19, are involved having featured in the senior friendly against Canada last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow midfielder Mafico, 18, is included in Jones&#8217; 23-man party having made three senior appearances for the Bluebirds this season, while Manchester United forward Gabriele Biancheri \u2013 who is also eligible for Canada and Italy &#8211; is called up again having made his under-21 debut in the Denmark game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are returns after injury for goalkeeper Lewys Benjamin, who is on loan at Chester FC from Wolves, and Eastleigh&#8217;s on-loan Bournemouth defender Archie Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones&#8217; side meet Belgium at Rodney Parade on Friday, 10 October (18:00 BST), before meeting Austria at Linz&#8217;s Donauparkstadion on Tuesday, 14 October (17:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior internationals Charlie Crew and Kai Andrews have been named in the Wales Under-21 squad for this month&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}