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Sol Campbell: 'England World Cup squad is too young'

Sol Campbell claims that the England squad selected by Roy Hodgson for the World Cup is too young.

Sol Campbell has claimed that Roy Hodgson's England squad for this summer's World Cup is too young.

Hodgson elected to put faith in the likes of Luke Shaw, Ross Barkley and Raheem Sterling when he announced his squad earlier this week, but Campbell believes that the manager has not got the balance right ahead of the trip to Brazil.

"There are not enough of that middle group. It is a squad almost of young [players] and then a few 28-plus, 30, whatever... there is not that middle market which needs to be filled in," the former England defender told Reuters.

"You get that first game and everyone is excited but then you get that second and that third game and the pressure really comes in, where the enormity of what you are trying to do kicks in.

"You have to be a really special kid to be able to handle that - and you need the experience around you to absorb that, and allow you to continue to be free and not to be inhibited by it."

Campbell appeared in three World Cups for England.

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