Ferdinand was left out of the Euro 2012 squad for "footballing reasons". His exclusion avoided a potential conflict with Terry. The Chelsea defender was named in Hodgson's squad for last year's tournament in Poland and Ukraine as he awaited trial over allegations he racially abused Ferdinand's brother, Anton.They have friendlies against Brazil, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland in the summer, before resuming their qualifying campaign against Moldova on 6 September.Terry was cleared of the charge at Westminster Magistrates' Court in July and retired from international football, but was later found guilty by the Football Association.While Hodgson is not planning to completely rely on younger players to secure England's place in Brazil next year, he is happy with the quality coming through the ranks.Ferdinand has not played for England since and formally ended his international career this week.I don't want to go down the young players route - if I want Frank Lampard or Michael Dawson to play I don't want to worry about their age," he said. Hodgson added: "It's time for me to get behind the players who will be the ones to take us to Brazil [for the 2014 World Cup].We have a lot of talented players - Jack Wilshere has played 113 minutes in over a year for me but he has a great future, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Tom Cleverley, Danny Welbeck, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, plus the Under-21 team with Jordan Henderson, who has come on.John [Terry] did call me when the stories broke and my understanding is that he is in line with Rio [Ferdinand] and he is actually in retirement.
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