Goalkeeper Jonny Sim is hoping to help England’s Futsal side take another step towards qualifying for their World Cup finals in Lithuania next year.

Sim, originally from Lazonby, near Penrith, has been named in head coach Michael Skubala’s 16-man squad for their World Cup qualifying main round matches against Hungary tomorrow, hosts Italy on Friday and Belarus on Sunday.

Skubala said: "We know this is going to be a very tough tournament for us all, but we’re very excited to hit the challenge head on.

"We know our opposition teams are more than 25 places above us in the world rankings, but we’re prepared and we’ll do our best and, hopefully, make the Futsal community proud.

"The players have worked really hard over the last few months to be in a position to challenge and compete and you never know, we could cause a bit of an upset if a few things do drop our way."

"It’s great for the national Futsal programme to be competing at this level of competition. For young budding football and Futsal players to have this to aspire to, [it] is great," he added on The FA's website.

"Italy have always got to latter stages of FIFA Futsal World Cups and been European champions in the past, so to be playing three teams with strong national Futsal backgrounds in competition, is great on so many levels."

Will Rooke, from Ulverston, is also in England’s squad.

The matches will be held in Eboli at the PalaSele venue.