harry kane's participation in this summer’s under 21 european championship is in doubt after it emerged that tottenham are considering a post season friendly in malaysia spurs are committed to an exhibition match against sydney fc in australia on may 30 and are to hold talks about a friendly in kuala lumpur on the way kane, 21, has been told he will travel to australia with the rest of the squad and would also be in the party stopping off in malaysia for another lucrative end of season game harry kane could miss the under 21 european championship due to a friendly in malaysia  kane trains after being called up to his first senior squad after a sensational season with spurs  kane helped england u21s to the tournament in the czech republic with six goals in eight games  spurs boss mauricio pochettino has expressed his fears about burn out for the premier league’s joint leading goalscorer as he prepares to make his england debut against lithuania the fa are in talks with kane and tottenham officials, including pochettino, about playing for gareth southgate’s england under 21 team in the czech republic but negotiations have become increasingly tense because of tottenham’s commitments in australia after the final game of the season on may 24 pochettino wants kane to miss this summer’s tournament to make sure he has enough recovery time before the start of next season, but the striker wants to play in the championship kane has been told he will not be required for the senior friendly against the republic of ireland on june 7 or a euro 2016 qualifier in slovenia a week later instead he is wanted by southgate for the under 21 tournament which runs from june 17 30 kane hit his first premier league hat trick against leicester, taking his tally for the season to 29  kane fires past kasper schmeichel as spurs keep up their hopes of a top four finish  kane helped fire england to the czech republic, joining italy, portugal and sweden in a tough group b  meanwhile, roy hodgson will attend the world cup draw in july as england manager but with no assurances that he will be in charge for the campaign to reach russia in 2018 hodgson is keen to extend his contract which will expire next year, although fa chairman greg dyke has warned him that negotiations may not begin for another 12 months ‘i get on quite well with roy and we chat all the time but we have not talked about contracts yet,’ said dyke ‘we genuinely haven’t discussed it we will have that discussion in the next nine months to a year ‘when we decided in brazil that we wanted roy to continue with his contract, we thought, “he’s got a contract, he sees it through” some time in the next year we will discuss what happens afterwards’ roy hodgson says he has not discussed a contract extension beyond next year  hodgson's england are top of their qualifying group and look set for a spot in france  the draw for the world cup qualifiers is in st petersburg on july 25 hodgson will represent england but dyke plans to miss the event after reacting to a tough 2014 world cup draw by making a cut throat gesture ‘roy will go, i’m not allowed after what happened last time,’ he said england are cruising towards euro 2016 after winning the first four qualifiers to establish a six point lead at the head of a group from which the top two go through automatically hodgson will be 70 at the time of the world cup in russia but has proved a popular manager with fa chiefs and players alike since he replaced fabio capello in 2012 the euro 2016 qualification process has been so tame, however, that a final decision on his contract may even be shelved until after the finals ‘without being disrespectful, this group isn’t the toughest,’ said centre half phil jagielka ‘time will tell in the tournament there is a bit of pressure on and that is when the judgment will be clearer we need to have a good tournament in france to back him if roy is going to stay on, and the boys are desperate to do that he’s a likeable person and a good man manager’ additional reporting: matt barlow 
kane lithuania malaysia portugal june 18 roy hodgson's italy post season england spurs mauricio pochettino the czech republic
kane's participation in the czech republic is in doubt due to spurs' friendly in malaysia as part of their post season tour  england kick off the under 21 european championship against portugal on june 18  spurs boss mauricio pochettino wants kane to miss the tournament, fearing burn out  kane is in roy hodgson's senior squad to face lithuania and italy 