David Beckham will win his 100th cap for England after being named in Fabio Capello's starting line-up for tonight's friendly international with France in Paris.
The Los Angeles Galaxy player, who made his debut against Moldova in 1996, was preferred to David Bentley in the first XI.
It means Beckham joins Peter Shilton, Billy Wright, Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore as the fifth player to reach the 100 cap mark for England.
Beckham had been left out of the starting line-up against Switzerland last month by Capello and told to prove his fitness.
Now the Italian has intimated the former Manchester United star could play a part with his country up until the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Capello made two other changes from the side which had beaten the Swiss 2-1 at Wembley in his first game in charge.
John Terry came back into the side for the injured Matthew Upson but he had relinquished the captaincy to Rio Ferdinand who was leading England for the first time.
The other change saw Owen Hargreaves preferred to Jermaine Jenas as Capello went for two holding players in the middle of the park. Hargreaves would be playing alongside Gareth Barry and looked set to operate with a 4-2-3-1 formation.
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