England prepare World Cup warm-up matches with Mexico and Japan Football

Fabio Capello has lined up friendlies with Mexico and Japan forward of the summer"s World Cup. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

England will finish their World Cup preparations with friendlies opposite Mexico and Japan. The matches will form the centrepiece of the physical education instructor Fabio Capello"s prudent preparations for South Africa, that embody dual precision camps in Austria.

The date of the Mexico compare at Wembley has still to be confirmed, with Football Association officials anticipating Fifa will concede the diversion to be played on Sunday twenty-three May, rather than a day after as is currently the case. England will afterwards take on Japan in Graz on Sunday thirty May. In between, England will outlay majority of their time in Austria at a precision stay in Irdning.

Capello will name what is expected to be a 28-man subject to World Cup patrol on seventeen May, the day after the FA Cup final, afterwards leave a day after reduction any players concerned at Wembley or in the Champions League last in Madrid on twenty-two May.

England will lapse to London for the Mexico match, prior to to streamer behind to Irdning for some-more rise precision prior to to personification Japan.

They will afterwards be since dual days to outlay with their family groups prior to to Capello confirms his last 23-man World Cup squad. The patrol will afterwards fly out to South Africa on 2 June, eleven days prior to to the opening Group C confront in Rustenburg, that will be England"s bottom for the generation of the competition.