{"id":15031,"date":"2026-07-07T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15031"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:27:08","slug":"thomas-tuchel-names-england-squad-for-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15031","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Tuchel names England squad for 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Thomas Tuchel has named his England squad to travel to the 2026 World Cup summer.<\/b><\/div>\n<p>The German has made some big decisions on his squad, with Phil Foden and Cole Palmer the headline omissions from the travelling group.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Maguire, Morgan Gibbs-White, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Adam Wharton are other notable absentees, though there&#8217;s a recall fo Al-Ahli striker Ivan Toney for the first time since June.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire confirmed his omission on social media on Thursday, with the 33-year-old stating he was &#8216;shocked and gutted&#8217; to miss out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">John Stones is selected at centre-back, despite only playing 361 minute of Premier League football for Manchester City this season. Stones is joined by City teammate Marc Guehi among the centre-back options, with Ezri Konsa, Jarell Quansah and Dan Burn also selected.<\/div>\n<p>Tino Livramento has made the cut at right-back, despite doubts over the Newcastle&#8217;s defender&#8217;s fitness.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Harry Kane will captain England at the tournament, following a career-best campaign at Bayern Munich. The 32-year-old has scored 58 goals across all competitions and will be targeting a second World Cup Golden Boot, having won the award in 2018.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">The 2026 World Cup will take place in Canada, Mexico and USA between 11 June and 19 July. The Three Lions face Croatia in their first fixture on 17th June.<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"heading-content\" id=\"heading-1\">England squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/h2>\n<p><b>Goalkeepers:<\/b> Jordan Pickford (Everton), Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), James Trafford (Manchester City)<\/p>\n<p><b>Defenders:<\/b> Reece James (Chelsea), Tino Livramento (Newcastle), Marc Guehi (Manchester City), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), John Stones (Manchester City), Jarell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen), Nico O&#8217;Reilly (Manchester City), Dan Burn (Newcastle), Djed Spence (Tottenham)<\/p>\n<p><b>Midfielders:<\/b> Declan Rice (Arsenal), Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Jordan Henderson (Brentford), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa), Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United)<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Forwards:<\/b> Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Ivan Toney (Al-Ahli), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Noni Madueke (Arsenal), Marcus Rashford (Barcelona), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Tuchel has named his England squad to travel to the 2026 World Cup summer&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}