{"id":629426,"date":"2026-06-09T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629426\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:39:15","slug":"liverpools-rio-ngumoha-to-leave-england-world-cup-camp-having-impressed-tuchel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629426\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool’s Rio Ngumoha to leave England World Cup camp having impressed Tuchel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a>‘s teenage forward Rio Ngumoha will leave the England camp this week after making a major impression on Thomas Tuchel and his international team-mates.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old, who is not in England’s 26-man squad, was named man-of-the-match for his debut performance as a second-half substitute in Saturday’s 1-0 World Cup warm-up win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n

England play their final pre-tournament friendly on Wednesday against Costa Rica and it will be interesting to see if Tuchel again selects Ngumoha.<\/p>\n

The England manager will have a full squad to choose from following the arrivals of Arsenal<\/a> quartet Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka, Eberechi Eze and Noni Madueke.<\/p>\n

But while the starting line-up against Costa Rica is expected to be closer to the side that will play the opening World Cup match against Croatia on Wednesday, 17 June, it is unlikely the Arsenal<\/a> players will start.<\/p>\n

So, could Ngumoha be given another chance before he and England go their separate ways?<\/p>\n

The main squad will travel to their World Cup base in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday, after they have played a behind-closed-doors training game against local team Miami United.<\/p>\n

Ngumoha will go on holiday before returning to the US next month for Liverpool<\/a>‘s pre-season tour.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool<\/a> attacker was one of five supplementary England players taken to the pre-tournament camp in Florida, with the Arsenal<\/a> players among those arriving later having been in the Champions League final.<\/p>\n

Ngumoha was only meant to participate in training, however, Tuchel has been so impressed he felt compelled to play him during the first warm-up match – a surprise decision that was vindicated.<\/p>\n

That performance had led to assertions that Ngumoha should have been in Tuchel’s thinking before now, either included in the final 26, or first in-line for a call-up should a player be injured before the tournament starts.<\/p>\n

However, because Ngumoha was not included in Tuchel’s initial 55-man squad for the tournament he cannot be drafted in as an injury replacement.<\/p>\n

Speaking in March, Tuchel refused to rule out selecting the teenager for the tournament \u2013 so to then not pick him in the expanded 55-man pool does seem confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool‘s teenage forward Rio Ngumoha will leave the England camp this week after making a major impression on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}