Recent results are promising, with the British 14 and under boys coming fourth in the World Junior Tennis Championships and the 16 and under team coming second in the prestigious European Summer Cup.
Vickers joined Newcastle Falcons academy as a student and has gone on to make 66 appearances for the club in five seasons, as well as representing England Saxons during their summer Churchill Cup campaign.
Ferris was a member of the Ireland U21 squad that participated in the World Cup in Argentina in 2005, but missed selection for last summer's Churchill Cup as he remained at home for minor ankle surgery.
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Much was made of the Egyptian team being robbed at this summer's Confederations Cup.
He earned his first cap in November, having helped Scotland A win the IRB Nations Cup that summer.
It is the latest distraction in the build-up to this summer's World Cup.
Glamorgan signed Gibbs for the summer's Twenty20 Cup and want him to return.
Vela has 29 Mexico caps, scoring nine times, and appeared at his first World Cup last summer in South Africa.
Both were selected in the England squad to face Hungary on Wednesday, having missed out on this summer's World Cup.
Meanwhile, England and other countries at this summer's World Cup in South Africa have been promised 24-hour surveillance at their hotels.
Cunningham takes over the captaincy from Steve Staunton, who retired from international football after leading the Republic at this summer's World Cup.
Yet when the country is distracted by the soccer World Cup this summer, a switch of prime ministers cannot be ruled out.
The Scottish Football Association came in for fierce criticism for the scheduling of the failed bid to reach this summer's World Cup finals.
But county cricket may not have seen the last of him as he is contemplating the possibility of playing in next summer's Twenty20 Cup.
If that proves to be the prognosis, it would leave Beckham's hopes of appearing for England at this summer's World Cup finals in tatters.
The Egypt match at Wembley is England's last before the provisional squad is named on 16 May for this summer's World Cup in South Africa.
Absent of a particularly sparkling track record, British football fans are looking to this summer's World Cup in Munich with feelings of both excitement and trepidation.
Neill, who is also the Australia captain, was keen to secure regular first-team football after the Socceroos qualified for next summer's World Cup in South Africa.
The 34-year-old played for the Dragons in last summer's Twenty20 Cup and has re-signed for the months of July, August and September with an option to extend.
Despite praising him by comparing him with Maldini, Ancelotti does not think the Chelsea and England captain will lift the World Cup this summer in South Africa.
Hart has failed to add to his solitary England cap while on loan, but could make the England squad for this summer's World Cup in South Africa.
The NFF has had to move fast to find a successor to give them as much time as possible to prepare for this summer's World Cup in South Africa.
Nor can Ms Merkel hope for a boost from Germany's staging of the World Cup this summer, which is becoming an embarrassing tale of leaking stadiums and ticket-allocation mishaps.
Rooney, who has been struggling for form since last summer's World Cup, last played for the club when he came off the bench in the 2-2 draw against West Brom.
In this issue we take our annual accounting of the leading European football clubs and stars, many of whom will also be on display this summer in the World Cup tournament.
In this summer's World Cup, around a third of the industry's turnover came from foreign punters placing bets with British bookies, with much of this coming from rich Asian football fans.
His fortunes did not improve after his return from Italy and the centre-back has made no secret of his desire to move elsewhere to play first-team football before this summer's World Cup.
Lord Triesman stepped down after the Mail on Sunday claimed he had said that Spain could drop its 2018 bid if rival bidder Russia helped bribe referees at last summer's World Cup.
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