Tom Lockyer: Wales recall Luton captain after heart surgery

Tom Lockyer is an ex-Charlton Athletic and Bristol Rovers defender

Wales brag Robert Page has recalled Tom Lockyer for their September games against South Korea and Latvia pursuing the Luton Town captain's betterment from bosom surgery.

However, Leeds United's Dan James has been ruled retired by injury.

Meanwhile Page has included uncapped trio Tom King, Morgan Fox and Liam Cullen and recalled Josh Sheehan.

Queens Park Rangers defender Fox earns his telephone up astatine the property of 29 portion 24-year-old Swansea City striker Cullen besides has a accidental to advancement astatine planetary level.

Winger James has an abductor problem.

Bolton Wanderers' Sheehan, 28, is backmost aft past being progressive with Wales successful 2021.

Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper King played for England astatine age-grade level, but qualifies for Wales via his Welsh father.

Lockyer suffered an atrial fibrillation, a information the NHS describes arsenic causing "an irregular and often abnormally accelerated bosom rate".

Centre-back Lockyer has not played for Wales since September 2021, though helium was portion of their squad astatine past year's the 2022 World Cup arsenic good arsenic Euro 2020.

He was named successful the Championship squad of the twelvemonth aft helping Luton scope the Premier League successful 2022-23.

Before promotion Lockyer had spent his full vocation beneath the apical flight.

Wales instrumentality to enactment with a affable astatine Cardiff City Stadium against South Korea connected Thursday, 7 September earlier a Euro 2024 qualifier successful Latvia 4 days later.

Wales person won lone 1 of their past 12 games, with defeats by Armenia and Turkey successful June severely damaging hopes of qualifying for Euro 2024.

Wales are 4th successful the five-team Group D, with conscionable 1 triumph from 4 matches leaving them with lone the slimmest hopes of qualifying automatically and perchance relying connected a play-off successful March to scope adjacent year's tourney successful Germany.

Football Association of Wales (FAW) bosses conducted a reappraisal of the defeats against Armenia and Turkey - arsenic they bash aft each planetary model - and decided to instrumentality with Page.

Page has accepted "full responsibility" for his side's plight and hopes determination has been an betterment successful his players' lucifer fittingness aft worries implicit a deficiency of crippled clip for their clubs.

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Summer moves for the likes of skipper Aaron Ramsey, centre-back Joe Rodon and midfielder Ethan Ampadu could assistance resoluteness that problem.

Wales squad: Hennessey, Ward, King, B Davies, Fox, Rodon, Cabango, Mepham, Lockyer, N Williams, Roberts, Burns, Ampadu, Sheehan, J James, Morrell, Wilson, Ramsey, Moore, Broadhead, Johnson, Brooks, Bradshaw, Cullen.