NEW YORK, USA — Former England youth player Kasey Palmer has earned a late call-up to Jamaica’s senior Reggae Boyz squad set to face the US in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, on Thursday.

Palmer, 24, is an attacking midfielder who plays for 14th-placed Bristol City in the English Championship.

He has represented England at the Under-17, Under-18, Under-20, and Under-23 levels and comes to an inexperienced team stacked with several locally based players who have not played a competitive match in approximately a year.

Local-based Luca Levee is also expected to join up with the Jamaican delegation in New York today ahead of its late-afternoon departure to Vienna.

Levee is expected to be joined on the New York trip by stand-in physical trainer, Welshman Andrew Clement from Mount Pleasant Football Academy, who was drafted in at the last minute to fill the void left vacant by the absence of regular trainers Lamar Morgan and Jason Henry.

Levee and Clement are British passport holders.

Meanwhile, it’s all systems go for the delegation, which left Jamaica on Tuesday afternoon. They have all been issued with their Schengen visas and were all declared COVID-19-free after undergoing PCR tests at SameDayTesting lab on Thursday.

The group flew up to New York yesterday morning, where it will overlay in preparation for this afternoon’s flight to Vienna, via Frankfurt.

The European-based players are expected to join the squad in Wiener Neustadt.

It is understood that Ravel Morrison will not make the trip.

— Ian Burnett