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Gareth Southgate announces latest England squad<\/h3>\n

Lewis Dunk says he returns to the England fold five years after his first and only cap a \u201ccompletely different player\u201d after being taught to see the game through different eyes. The Brighton defender, 31, feared his chance for a recall had gone especially when injury cruelly denied him a second call-up in May last year.<\/p>\n

But after being forced to re-evaluate the way he plays the game under revolutionary Seagulls boss Roberto Di Zerbi, he insists he will return a completely different player. And this time he is hoping to keep hold of his spot all the way to the Euros next summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m completely different person and a different player. I\u2019m five years older, five years wiser and I\u2019ve learnt a lot football-wise and life-wise in those five years,\u201d said Dunk. \u201cI\u2019m a different person now and come here with a different confidence that I probably didn\u2019t come with before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Key to that confidence has been the remarkable journey travelled with Brighton, first under Chris Hughton, then Graham Potter and now Di Zerbi, who Dunk says challenged everything he felt he knew about the game. While much appears the same nearly five years on\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the 6ft 4ins frame still commanding attention as he walks into a room \u2013 Dunk v2.0 is much changed since featuring in the 3-0 victory over USA in November 2018.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt comes with the way Brighton\u2019s gone and the way I\u2019ve dedicated myself to learning from this new manager and to improve,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m 31 but still learning every day and feel good in myself and want to play at the highest level and now I\u2019m doing that – I\u2019m playing in Europe and I\u2019m in the England set-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dunk\u2019s travels with Brighton from a debut against MK Dons in League One in May 2010 to leading them into Europe have been the stuff of dreams. And given how much he has achieved in the last 12 months his name is firmly in the frame for Gareth Southgate\u2019s plans for the Euros next summer.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt was a long wait \u2013 five or six years of not being in the squad and you starting thinking \u2018is it time that I won\u2019t get back in again?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut all I did was focus on my playing for my club and trying to be the best I can be for them, and then hopefully the form shows in the end and I\u2019m here now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Asked what Di Zerbi has done for his game, Dunk is visibly enthused.\u00a0\u201cFootball-wise I now see the game since the new manager at Brighton has come in a completely different way,\u201d he said. \u201cAll our games now are about pressure, playing with opposition teams when they’re pressing high and pressing low. When to pass, the timing of that and the timing of movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, I didn’t really know about that. Football is not what I thought it was. The idea of what I did before, I thought it made sense. But when you learn something completely different, you believe in it and this makes sense.\u201d That Brighton\u2019s strategies have changed people\u2019s perceptions of Dunk from a Row Z finder to refined passer is clear from Southgate\u2019s renewed interest.<\/p>\n

But the defender know it is now time to show a bigger audience. He concluded: \u201cYou have to look at yourself and try to improve yourself every day like I do, and keep working hard and now I\u2019ve earned a way back in. So it\u2019s been a great, great journey, an enjoyable one and it\u2019s not ending anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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