Pickford is the man in possession after helping England reach the World Cup semi-finals for only the fourth time this summer.<\/p>\n
Thomas Tuchel spoke of his admiration for both Trafford and Henderson after he was appointed England manager in 2024. <\/p>\n
Trafford made his England debut in the 1-1 draw with Uruguay in March but Pickford played every minute of the World Cup until the game against France, when Henderson started.<\/p>\n
In doing so he surpassed Peter Shilton’s England record of 17 World Cup appearances, ending the tournament on 19.<\/p>\n
After England defeated Mexico in the World Cup last 16, former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson said: “I think he’s the first name on the team sheet. There is nobody else.”<\/p>\n
Pickford has made 14 appearances at European Championships, while he has saved four of the 14 penalties he has faced in major tournament shoot-outs, guiding England to wins against Colombia in the 2018 World Cup and against Switzerland in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024. <\/p>\n
The former Sunderland<\/a> player has been consistent over nine campaigns with Everton<\/a>, winning the club’s player-of-the-season award three times in a row as they battled relegation between 2021 and 2024. <\/p>\n The 32-year-old has played 362 Premier League games in total, keeping 98 clean sheets and saving almost 70% of the shots he has faced – including 86% from outside the box. <\/p>\n Over the past two seasons, only Arsenal<\/a>‘s David Raya has kept more Premier League clean sheets.<\/p>\n Pickford also won the competition’s save-of-the-season award for a second time last season following a remarkable reactionary stop, external<\/a> from Sandro Tonali’s volley to secure Everton<\/a>‘s 3-2 win at St James’ Park in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pickford is the man in possession after helping England reach the World Cup semi-finals for only the fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715800","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\/715800","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=715800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}