{"id":116468,"date":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:19:08","slug":"london-city-lionesses-defender-poppy-pattinson-receives-first-england-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116468\/","title":{"rendered":"London City Lionesses defender Poppy Pattinson receives first England call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, defenders Jess Carter, Alex Greenwood and Leah Williamson and forward Lauren James \u2013 all Euro 2025 winners \u2013 return, having been absent from the experimental squad head coach Sarina Wiegman named in November.<\/p>\n<p>Wiegman is without Niamh Charles, Missy Bo Kearns, Ella Toone and Beth Mead due to injury.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sarina Wiegman&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lionesses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Lionesses<\/a> squad of 2026! \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lionesses (@Lionesses) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lionesses\/status\/2023714038539288672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to start our campaign off in the best possible way and will need to be at a top level as we face two different challenges,\u201d said Wiegman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is new opposition for this England team, so that\u2019s exciting too. I am looking forward to being back with the squad and getting back to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always we\u2019re grateful to the fans for their support. A big crowd in Nottingham (for Iceland) in a historic stadium will be really special, but we can\u2019t look too far ahead and our full focus first will be on our opening fixture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goalkeeper Hannah Hampton, defenders Jess Carter, Alex Greenwood and Leah Williamson and forward Lauren James \u2013 all Euro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-116468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}