Despite his omission from McClaren's first squad as manager, BBC Sport understands Beckham will not announce his international retirement.
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L.A. basketball coach John Wooden, at the first squad meeting each season, even had his players practice putting their socks on.
And Beckham's England career is also in the balance after new national boss Steve McClaren left him out of his first squad for Wednesday's friendly.
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And the only overseas-based player guaranteed his place in De Villiers's first squad, to be named on the weekend of 16 May, is World Cup-winning captain John Smit.
The 28-year-old was left out of Craig Levein's first Scotland squad, which will face the Czech Republic next week.
The forward was left out of Fabio Capello's first England squad for the match against Switzerland on 5 February.
Meanwhile, the U's have offered contracts to six of their first team squad and expect to have their responses by Monday.
Since then he has become a regular part of the first team squad and also made his England Under-21 debut against Bulgaria in November.
Walsall's first team squad has undergone wholesale changes over the course of the summer, but Whalley believes the club has emerged in good shape.
And White plans to further strengthen the first-team squad in the hope of mounting a challenge next summer for a first Championship title since 1973.
Matthews is one of just a handful of players eligible for the Wales U21 squad, but called up first into the senior squad.
Holt says it showed that the urgency for victory goes beyond the first-team squad.
Glasgow Rangers have pledged to bring some of their first-team squad down for the occasion.
"He is a boy who wouldn't be coming to go straight into our first-team squad, " said Mowbray.
First, the squad has been free from suspicions of corruption since that fateful 2010 series in England.
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He in back in training and working pain-free, although he has yet to join in sessions with the first-team squad.
Wolves split their first-team squad into two for the friendly match, with the other half facing Port Vale on Wednesday night.
The statement also revealed that Portsmouth will now look to "add fresh faces to the first-team squad as soon as possible".
Scott had been training all week with the first-team squad in preparation for the match and was initially named as a replacement.
Leeds were relegated from the Premiership last season and have since sold most of their first-team squad to reduce their wage bill.
Kinnear said he wanted to keep his first-team squad intact in January.
Saints boss Gordon Strachan was left with five first-team squad players on Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for Saturday's FA Cup match with Norwich.
Howard made 114 appearances during his decade in the first-team squad.
The former Wales Under-21 international has had to overcome a succession of injuries as an academy player to force his way in Gareth Southgate's first-team squad.
Damien Johnson, Grant McCann and David Healy are the only regular senior players included as several of the first-choice squad members are unavailable because of holiday commitments.
"We need a Danny Wright type of player in terms of physique, but I need to decide what I'm doing with my own squad first, " he said.
He follows fellow first-team squad members George Chuter, Martin Castrogiovanni, Jordan Crane, Marcos Ayerza, Johne Murphy, Ben Pienaar and Brett Deacon in committing his future to the club.
The former Cambridge front man returned to the Britannia Stadium with a fresh outlook and after a promising pre-season, during which Kitson scored three times, he was back in the first-team squad.
We know only too well that we need to add to the first-team squad but at this moment in time there is a limited amount we can do until the takeover is completed.
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