The FAI announce second pre-Euro 2016 friendly

Ramsey, along with Real Madrid superstar Gareth Bale and Swansea captain Ashley Williams, will surely be influential if the Dragons are to escape from their group-and possibly secure a big win over England in the process. Chris has moulded the rest of the players around that well.

“We have a lot of respect for Wales and the others as well”. What I will say is that the whole time I ever played for Northern Ireland you always had a great mix in the squad.

“We all know about their threats and they will know about ours”.

It was the draw Coleman had been hoping to avoid, but Russian Federation and Slovakia are the other opponents in the group meaning the most daunting rivals had been avoided.

Led by Bale, one of the most fearsome forwards in today’s game, Wales qualified for their first major tournament since reaching the 1958 World Cup.

“Roy, the campaign they had, it was a fantastic return”.

“You look around all the coaches here and you feel so honoured and proud to be here, representing Wales. England are one of the best teams and we are looking forward to it”. “We’ve got some good young, exciting players”.

Another potential issue could arise if Russian Federation and Turkey are drawn into the same group.

So it’s time to get those tickets booked and camper vans ready to cheer on the Boys in Green as it promises to be a great summer.

“I was so honoured and proud to be here. Absolutely 100% we can”. They wouldn’t even play us in a friendly when I was playing for Wales.

The Irish were pitted alongside Belgium, Italy and Sweden in Group E at the finals, arguably the toughest section of all.

All the focus may be on Wales being drawn in the same group as England, but the opportunity to get one over on Russian Federation will also inspire Coleman to seek revenge for the controversial and agonising Euro 2004 play-off defeat.

Coleman described Slovakia, who include Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel, as a good counter-attacking side and noted they beat Spain during qualifying.

Italy fans will also remember the last time they came up against Sweden in the tournament.

“It means we must be fully concentrated from the first game”, Loew said.

“Everybody was expecting it and the look on Roy Hodgson’s face showed he didn’t want it either”.

“I’m not unhappy with the draw”, he told Sporza. People overlook that and we go into this tournament with everything to gain.

He said: “It was nearly inevitable we’d get England and there’s not that many easy groups”. The first match against Italy probably will be the hardest.

Hodgson’s contract runs out at the end of the 2016 tournament but a decent run – for example to the quarter-finals – should be enough to persuade the FA to keep him on for the Russian Federation 2018 World Cup campaign. “We must start with the same intention”.

The teams will be drawn into six groups of four, with two from each group, plus the four best third-placed teams, qualifying for the knockout stages.