Saturday 27 May 2017

AMPADU CALLED UP TO WALES SQUAD

On the eve of their League Two Play-off final appearance against Blackpool, Exeter City received the boost of seeing their young starlet Ethan Ampadu being called up to the Wales senior squad.

Ampadu, 16, son of former Grecians midfielder Kwame Ampadu, has been called up by manager Chris Coleman for a training squad ahead of their 2018 World Cup qualifier against Serbia - whilst Ampadu is on his half-term holiday.

As a teenager his GCSE exams take priority, but his situation is very different to that of most of his contemporary peers and let's not forget that he is still at St James' Park on schoolboy forms.

He becomes the latest City starlet to receive international recognition after Matt Grimes, now of Swansea City, and Christy Pym were called up to the England Under-20 squad in 2014.