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Jude Bellingham has received a boost from Thomas Tuchel aft being handed nan coveted No 10 garment for England’s World Cup campaign.
Preparations began astatine a training campy successful Florida connected Tuesday and nan midfielder Kobbie Mainoo said nan squad believed “100%” that they tin triumph nan tournament.
With 2 weeks to spell until England’s opening World Cup fixture, 21 of Tuchel’s 26-man squad are successful West Palm Beach for a week-long campy and nan squad numbers were confirmed connected Tuesday.
Bellingham, nan Real Madrid midfielder, takes nan No 10 garment up of his rivals Morgan Rogers and Eberechi Eze. Elliot Anderson, who made his England debut little than a twelvemonth ago, secured No 8.
England's World Cup squad numbers
Show1 Jordan Pickford 2 Ezri Konsa 3 Nico O’Reilly 4 Declan Rice 5 John Stones 6 Marc Guéhi 7 Bukayo Saka 8 Elliot Anderson 9 Harry Kane 10 Jude Bellingham 11 Marcus Rashford 12 Tino Livramento 13 Dean Henderson 14 Jordan Henderson 15 Dan Burn 16 Kobbie Mainoo 17 Morgan Rogers 18 Anthony Gordon 19 Ollie Watkins 20 Noni Madueke 21 Eberechi Eze. 22 Ivan Toney 23 James Trafford 24 Reece James 25 Djed Spence 26 Jarell Quansah
After training successful temperatures that reached 33C, England players addressed nan media and Mainoo was asked whether nan squad believed they could triumph nan 48-team tourney which originates adjacent Thursday and runs until July 19.
“One 100 per cent,” nan Manchester United midfielder said. “I consciousness for illustration everyone successful nan squad and nan unit believes we tin triumph it but it doesn’t travel easy and nan first game, nan 2nd game, we person to build and build.”
Jordan Henderson, who astatine 35 is astatine his 4th World Cup, talked done nan standards nan squad dream to deed by nan clip they unfastened against Croatia connected 17 June.
“It’s astir bringing nan champion type of ourselves, individually and collectively, and moving each time to execute our dreams,” he said. “We each cognize nan talent this squad has and really we tin wounded teams. But we cognize we person to beryllium fresh to do each nan invisible activity too.”
On nan upwind conditions, Henderson said: “It’s difficult to really accommodate but this week is astir building capacity. We’ve sewage an astonishing squad down nan squad moving connected really we cool down and recover. Hopefully that tin springiness america an edge.”
Earlier nan Football Assocation’s CEO, Mark Bullingham, said it was “going to beryllium hard” for England to bring location nan trophy. “It’s only doubly successful history that a European squad has won a World Cup extracurricular Europe,” he told nan Performance People podcast. “There’s a logic for that. It’s very difficult to triumph successful heat, altitude, humidity and truthful on. Other countries are amended astatine dealing pinch that because they’ve grown up pinch it. So it is going to beryllium hard, but we’ll beryllium doing everything we tin to spell arsenic acold arsenic possible.”
Arsenal’s Declan Rice, Noni Madueke, Eze and Bukayo Saka, and nan Crystal Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson will subordinate nan group precocious aft taking portion successful European finals past week. In nan meantime, Tuchel has supplemented his numbers by including Liverpool’s Rio Ngumoha, Fulham’s Josh King, Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri and Alex Scott of Bournemouth arsenic portion of nan Florida group.
