{"id":497645,"date":"2026-06-13T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/497645\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:38:11","slug":"police-investigate-theft-of-england-equipment-from-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/497645\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate theft of England equipment from base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Football Association has confirmed police are investigating the theft of England team equipment from their Kansas City base.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s side arrive in the Midwest on Saturday afternoon as World Cup preparations go up a notch following a warm weather camp in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>England land in Missouri dealing with an unexpected headache, with the Daily Mail reporting boots and balls have been stolen from the team\u2019s Swope Soccer Village training base.<\/p>\n<p>The FA has confirmed that an incident has occurred but was unable to provide further information given it is now a police matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department told the Daily Mail: &#8220;We are investigating a possible theft of equipment from a team vehicle that arrived in Kansas City with items missing this evening. The investigation is ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>England are due to train at Swope Soccer Village for the first time at 5pm local (11pm Irish time) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel\u2019s men open their World Cup campaign against Croatia on Wednesday, before completing Group L against Ghana and Panama.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every game of the FIFA 2026 World Cup live on RT\u00c9 with highlights on RT\u00c9 Sport digital platforms and live blogs on RT\u00c9.ie\/sport and RT\u00c9 News app <\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"SPMb50iheRw\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Football Association has confirmed police are investigating the theft of England team equipment from their Kansas City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-497645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}