\u201cHe has a lot of experience and he is exciting, he has brought that freedom back into his game so I am looking forward to seeing how he develops on that stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walcott, famously called up to England\u2019s 2006 World Cup as a 16 year old, was appearing on the Live Show alongside Daniel Sturridge, who travelled to Brazil as part of Roy Hodgson\u2019s squad in 2014.<\/p>\n
Sturridge is particularly excited by the midfield selection, which saw Kobbie Mainoo included alongside Jordan Henderson, Jude Bellingham, Elliot Anderson, Declan Rice, Morgan Rogers and Eberechi Eze.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are big stories across the board but it\u2019s an incredible selection and you have to give the manager credit for going with what he thinks is best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are exciting players \u2013 Kobbie Mainoo was out the fold at Manchester United and has worked his way back in, so I am really happy for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMorgan Rogers has just lifted a Europa League so he will be full of confidence. Hendo (Jordan Henderson) brings that experience, that mindset. It\u2019s a really exciting midfield.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defensively, Dan Burn will have the chance to add to his six England caps as he prepares to feature at his first World Cup at the age of 34.<\/p>\n
The Newcastle centre-back joins Ezri Konsa, John Stones, Marc Guehi, Jarrell Quansah, Tino Livramento, Nico O\u2019Reilly, Djed Spence and Reece James among the options in the backline.<\/p>\n
Walcott added: \u201cBurn is a great story. He brings that energy, chemistry and connection with all the players there. It\u2019s a lot of their first World Cups in that backline and the defence has been brilliant in the qualifying stages.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am pleased for John Stones as well, he will be the guy a lot of them can learn from, going into this with World Cup experience behind him. It\u2019s a nice line-up with a lot of youth, which is great to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe has a lot of experience and he is exciting, he has brought that freedom back into his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35581,212079,212075,212078,85,46,113598,163572,92941,15274,212077,105,212076,146824,121972],"class_list":["post-454529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-dan-burn","tag-daniel-sturridge","tag-england-mens-national-team","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kobbie-mainoo","tag-kyle-walker","tag-live-show","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-official-england-app","tag-sports","tag-theo-walcott","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-three-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}