Two in Northern Ireland call up
Callum Camps and Matty Lund have been called up for a week long Northern Ireland training camp ahead of two matches including a World Cup qualifier.
The training camp begins on 22nd May and will be based in Manchester ahead of the games against New Zealand on 2nd June in Belfast and the World Cup game against Azerbaijan eight days later.
This is not the full squad, as players with fixtures still to play this season will not join up until 29th May but with Lund being a permanent fixture within the squad these days, it'll be a great opportunity for Dale to have two international midfielders within the same squad.
But should Camps make the full squad, he'll join the growing list of Dale players to have played for Northern Ireland: Lee McEvilly, Patrick McCourt, Rory McArdle and Matty Lund are the previous Daleys to have played for NI.
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