ANDERS SVENSSON and Mikael Nilsson are just two of just FOURTEEN Saints on international duty next week.

They have been picked in the Swedish squad to play Holland in a friendly in Stockholm on Wednesday.

Other England-based players in the 21-man squad are Erik Edman (Tottenham), Olof Mellberg and Marcus Allbck (Aston Villa), Mattias Jonson (Norwich) and Fredrik Ljungberg (Arsenal).

Antti Niemi and Saints new boy Kenwyne Jones, meanwhile, will be on World Cup duty next week.

Niemi will play for Finland against Romania in Bucharest in the first game of their European Group 1 qualification programme.

Jones is in the Trinidad and Tobago squad for their WC qualifier against St Vincent/Grenadines next Wednesday.

Neil McCann and Chris Baird are in the Scotland and Northern Ireland squads respectively for next week's friendlies against Hungary in Glasgow and Switzerland in Zurich respectively.

New left-back Jelle van Damme has been called up by Belgium for their friendly against Norway, who have Claus Lundekvam in their squad, next Wednesday.

Marian Pahars, injury permitting, will also travel back to Latvia to take on Wales.

At under 21 level, Yoann Folly and Leandre Griffit have been selected for France for their math against Spain at La Rochelle next Tuesday.

And at Academy level Karl Yelland and Lloyd James are attending an under 17 Welsh training camp in Swansea this week and Tim Sparv has been selected for Finland's under 19s to face the Czech Republic and Slovakia next week.