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Tuchel Names England Squad

ESPN FC

ESPN

Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Thomas Tuchel's England squad for this summer's World Cup and question a few of his roster decisions. Plus, the guys recap official announcements for Pep Guardiola's departure and Michael Carrick permanently taking over Manchester United. Natalia Astrain, Gemma Soler and Julien Laurens also join the show to preview tomorrow's Women's Champions League final between Barcelona and Lyonnes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:23.6

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0:30.6

I'm Dan Thomas, joined by Ali Moreno and Shack.

0:32.6

Here's up later on in the show, we'll be looking ahead to the final round of matches in domestic football in Europe, but

0:38.3

we'll kick things off as the World Cup winners announced their squad going ahead.

0:43.3

What?

0:44.3

Uh, bro.

0:46.3

Yesterday we talked about the bigger missions, Foden, obviously Palmer, Gibbs White, Harry McGuire as well.

0:51.3

They were all leaked, they were all right.

0:53.3

Today was the official announcement.

0:55.6

Here is Tommy Tuchol.

0:57.7

I think from day one we were very clear that we are trying to select and build the best possible team,

1:05.7

which is not necessarily to select and collect the 26 most talented players.

1:13.6

Teams win championships, it's as simple as that.

1:17.6

And what we are trying to achieve in summer can only be achieved as a team.

1:23.6

Very difficult decisions, painful conversations, difficult for the players, difficult to explain to the players.

1:35.9

But as I said, what we're trying to achieve, we try to achieve as a team and we try to nominate the balanced squad.

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