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England person been nan victims of a information breakdown aft nan team’s lucifer boots were stolen earlier their first World Cup training convention successful Kansas City.
The theft is understood to person taken spot while instrumentality was being transported from nan squad’s pre-tournament guidelines successful Florida to their training campy astatine Swope Soccer Village successful Missouri. Boots belonging to England’s prima players were understood to beryllium among nan stolen items, on pinch charismatic tourney balls and training equipment.
Thomas Tuchel’s broadside will train astatine their guidelines for nan first clip connected Saturday afternoon. The Football Association declined to remark erstwhile approached by nan Guardian. It will person to liaise pinch section constabulary arsenic they effort to retrieve nan equipment.
England look Croatia successful their opening Group L crippled successful Dallas connected Wednesday. The FA has meticulous plans successful spot arsenic Tuchel attempts to lead nan men’s broadside to their first portion of silverware since 1966, but nan incident presents unit pinch a headache.
There were affirmative vibes during England’s acclimatisation campy successful nan power of West Palm Beach, Florida. England won friendlies against New Zealand successful Tampa and Costa Rica successful Orlando.
The capacity successful nan second was hugely encouraging and featured an eye-catching display from Jude Bellingham, who has boosted his chances of starting complete Morgan Rogers astatine No 10 against Croatia. Bukayo Saka is successful a title to beryllium his fittingness aft struggling pinch an achilles problem while Ezri Konsa and John Stones could support Marc Guéhi retired successful cardinal defence.
