17-year-old makes England Under-18s debut”

As the first Cheltenham Town representative to represent England, Tom King has created history.

The 17-year-old attacker played for the Under-18s on Saturday afternoon at the Marbella Football Centre in their 1-0 victory over Morocco.

An hour into the match, Dursley native King made his Three Lions debut by taking Samuel Amo-Ameyaw’s place for Southampton in the second half.

In the tenth minute, Amo-Ameyaw scored the lone goal to give head coach Ryan Garry’s team the victory.

The Young Lions’ mini-tournament in southern Spain started last week with a 1-1 tie against Belgium.

They play Korea Republic in their third and final game on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m.

Their final game before departing for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Indonesia the following month will be that one.

The following players represent England: 1 Elyh Harrison of Manchester United, 2 Triston Rowe of Aston Villa, 3 Jayden Meghoma of Southampton, 4 Finley McAllister of Manchester United, 5 Zach Abbott of Nottingham Forest, 6 Lakyle Samuel of Manchester City (c), 7 Justin Oboavwoduo of Manchester City, 8 Anthony Munda of Newcastle United, 9 Jayden Danns of Liverpool, 10 Samuel Amo-Ameyaw of Southampton, and 11 Tom Watson (Sunderland).

19 Tom King () for Amo-Ameyaw, 18 Chris Rigg (Sunderland) for Munda 23, 15 Harrison Murray Campbell (Chelsea) for Samuel 46, 21 Joel Ndala (Manchester City) for Oboavwoduo 60, 20 Matthew Warhurst (Manchester City) for Watson 60, Meghoma 71: 23 Joe Johnson (Luton Town), McAllister 74: 14 Reiss-Alexander Russell-Denny (Chelsea).

Josh Acheampong (Chelsea), Tommy Setford (Ajax), Ishé Samuels Smith (Chelsea), Archie Stevens (Glasgow Rangers), Ted Curd (Hashtag United, on loan from Chelsea), and Jimmy Jay Morgan (Chelsea) are the substitutes that were not utilised.