{"id":297670,"date":"2026-06-05T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297670\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:57:07","slug":"thomas-tuchel-concerned-about-florida-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297670\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Tuchel \u2018concerned\u2019 about Florida pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

England manager Thomas Tuchel says he is \u201cconcerned\u201d about pictures he has seen of the pitch at the Raymond James Stadium in Florida where England<\/a> will play New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

England<\/a> play New Zealand in the first of two friendlies before the World Cup begins, but the German manager was not happy with images he saw of the pitch, which did not look in great condition.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo, it will not affect\u00a0my team selection because what I heard until now is that it should be okay and we want it of course\u00a0to be okay. I saw just a photo from your colleague that made me a little bit worried and concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut let\u2019s decide when we are there. If there are any issues, we can always react to it. The plan\u00a0is tomorrow to play two sets of 45 minutes with two complete teams to expose everyone to the same\u00a0amount of minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think tomorrow is maybe the focus more on the\u00a0minutes. So we will share the minutes that we can continue in the training process together and we\u00a0don\u2019t have to split the group up and take care of the guys who played a bit less and take care of\u00a0the guys who played a little bit more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just will give everyone the minutes and everyone a go\u00a0finally here at the World Cup. But at the same time it\u2019s also like to reconnect to our identity\u00a0and the stuff that we did good. So we had a lot of meetings offensively and defensively\u00a0and we want to see how far we can push this already.\u201d<\/p>\n

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England play Croatia<\/a> in their World Cup opener on June 17, but Tuchel said he isn\u2019t even thinking about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think against Croatia it will be a\u00a0very different game and we have still four training days in Kansas to prepare for Croatia. So\u00a0Croatia at the moment does not exist in the talk to the players or it\u2019s not a theme in the\u00a0training sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England manager Thomas Tuchel says he is \u201cconcerned\u201d about pictures he has seen of the pitch at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56396,8094,28,30,29,54604,125316,125317],"class_list":["post-297670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-croatia","tag-england","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-world-cup-opener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}