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While the Welsh Football Association is looking for qualified Welsh players to boost its playing resources, Wilkinson has confirmed that it will only select those who most need to wear the red shirt.
“I think we talked about expanding the net and bringing in players and making sure we see everyone,” she said.
“At the same time, we cannot lose [sight of the fact] That this is Wales and playing for this country and wearing this badge is the privilege of a lifetime.
“For her (Hughes) to make that commitment from the start without any guarantees that she would join the team, I think it goes a long way in showing who she is and also how important being Welsh is to the group.”
Hughes is the only new call-up in the Wales senior squad to have been called up since Jess Fishlock’s international retirement, although there are four other uncapped players in Bobby Soper, Annie Wilding, Olivia Francis and Phoebe Ball.
Rhiannon Roberts, Ella Powell, Rachel Rowe, Lily Woodham and Esther Morgan are remembered after missing last month’s defeats to Poland and Australia through injury, but Josie Green and Sophia Kelly are absent again.
Anna Philby, Alice Griffiths, Lewis Jewell, Gwen Zimmerman, Scarlett Hill, Amy Richardson and Tegan Scarlett have been omitted as they were in the previous Wales squad.
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