{"id":273388,"date":"2025-11-05T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/273388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:51:08","slug":"bellingham-i-want-to-be-picked-for-england-but-not-my-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/273388\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellingham: I want to be picked for England but not my call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jude Bellingham<\/a> has said he would love to return to the England<\/a> squad for the World Cup qualifiers next week but added that selection is out of his hands.<\/p>\n

The Real Madrid<\/a> midfielder was left out of the England squad for last month’s qualifiers against Latvia and Wales<\/a>, with Tuchel referencing his lack of game time following shoulder surgery as the reason for his exclusion.<\/p>\n

The injury had kept him out of the England’s two September qualifiers as well, with his last appearance for England coming in the loss to Senegal<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

The tension between player and manager came to the fore in the aftermath of that game, with Tuchel dubbing Bellingham’s on-field behaviour as “repulsive.” It was a remark that Tuchel later issued an apology for.<\/p>\n

The England squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Serbia<\/a> and Albania<\/a> will be announced on Friday, and Tuchel had previously said he would reach out to Bellingham<\/a> for them.<\/p>\n

Jude Bellingham has missed England’s last four matches.\u00a0PAUL ELLIS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“It’s not my call,” Bellingham said in an interview to Amazon Prime, when asked if he will be selected.<\/p>\n

“I think you know whose call it is.”<\/p>\n

“I would love to be [picked] but it’s not my call. I’ll be waiting to see.”<\/p>\n

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Bellingham was in action on English soil on Tuesday, when his Madrid side faced Liverpool<\/a> in the Champions League. However, Tuchel did not attend the game.<\/p>\n

England have already sealed their place at next year’s World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham has said he would love to return to the England squad for the World Cup qualifiers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-273388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}