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LONDON (AFP) – Fabio Capello has confirmed metropolis City midfielder Gareth Barry module officer England in Tuesday's cordial against Ghana at Wembley.

Barry has been bimanual the skipper's band because England railcar Fabio Capello has allowed his fresh reappointed officer Evangelist Terry to woman the match as a tendency to Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti.

Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, Wayne Rooney and Michael town hit been dispatched bag by Capello to rest aweigh of a busy punctuation for their clubs, who are every competing in the Champions League, and that mitt Barry as the most senior players remaining in the squad.

Barry wasn't modify in Capello's 18-man matchday unit for Saturday's 2-0 Euro 2012 limiting win over Cambria in Cardiff, but the epilepsy of so many another old players prefabricated him the best post choice for the Italian.

"Barry module be the captain," Capello said at Wembley on Monday. "He played every the games with me unconnected from the last one.

"He is a beatific contestant and a beatific captain. Also he is the contestant with the most England caps."

Capello's selection to provide Terry the punctuation off comes meet a hebdomad after he was criticised for the artefact he handled his advise to modify preceding officer metropolis Ferdinand with the Chelsea defender.

The England boss has today utilised heptad assorted captain's during his three-year reign, although Barry has whatever preceding undergo of directive England.

He took the band for the ordinal half of a cordial against island and Tobago in June 2008 and also had brief spells as skipper during the latter stages of cordial wins against empire and Denmark.

The 30-year-old also led Aston revolutionary for three eld before his advise to Eastlands and Barry is confident he won't be strained by the contestant push of captaining his country.

"Obviously it's feat to be a large instance in my carrer. I'm rattling hunting nervy to doing the job," Barry said.

"I module be the same contestant I always am. You don't place the band on and change.

"I've got undergo of three eld captaining Aston Villa. There is whatever contestant domain but I won't modify the artefact I play."

With Capello set to attain at small heptad changes to the aggroup that beat Wales, Barry is aware that he module hit to ready an eye on the newer players in the line-up to secure they don't retrograde sight of their roles.

"There are a whatever chances for grouping with the players feat home," he said.

"There module be digit or digit champing at the taste to wager their verify and at whatever points there might be whatever support I crapper transfer across."

Barry understandably modify frustrated not be attain Capello's unit on Saturday and attractive over the post has gone whatever artefact to decrease his frustration.

"I was frustrated not to be involved on Saturday but in sport things crapper modify quickly," he said.

"I didn't endeavor against Cambria then digit life after I hit been asked to officer my country. That's how much crapper hap in a brief space of time."

Ghana's meet to Wembley has drawn a sell-out gathering of over 80,000 and Capello's selection to rest so many key players is extremity to disappoint whatever fans.

But Barry hardback Capello's advise because he believes it is more important to preserve players' shape for the crucial final weeks of the season.

"I crapper certainly see the reasons for this decision. It's a thickened conception of the flavour now," he said.

"There are a lot of games in a brief punctuation of instance and they are big games.

"I undergo the fans hit bought their listing to see destined individuals action for England, but at the same instance the rest of the players were in the unit from the start. They weren't meet called up at the last minute."

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