{"id":690603,"date":"2026-06-07T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690603\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:24:16","slug":"world-cup-2026-declan-rice-will-be-englands-vice-captain-says-manager-thomas-tuchel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690603\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Declan Rice will be England’s vice-captain, says manager Thomas Tuchel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice will be England’s vice-captain for the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Rice has earned 72 caps for the Three Lions and will be one of the most experienced players in Thomas Tuchel’s starting line-up.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old has just helped Arsenal win the Premier League for the first time since 2003-04 and reach the Champions League final, which they lost on penalties to Paris St-Germain last weekend.<\/p>\n

Rice filled in as captain during Harry Kane’s absence for the October friendly against Wales, when Ollie Watkins replaced Kane in the England attack. <\/p>\n

“I think I would say Declan is my vice-captain,” Tuchel said after Saturday’s friendly win over New Zealand.<\/a><\/p>\n

Asked whether Rice knows he has that role, the England manager added: “That is a good question. I was just thinking about it. Whether it is an official thing or not.<\/p>\n

“But I think we had this talk when Harry was not in camp with us. We started with Ollie and I think Declan was captain. That was where I told him.”<\/p>\n

Rice and his Arsenal team-mates Bukayo Saka, Noni Madueke and Eberechi Eze have now joined England’s training camp in the United States and began work with the group in Florida on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Tuchel’s side have one more friendly against Costa Rica in Orlando on Wednesday and will play a behind-closed-doors game with Miami FC before travelling to their Kansas City base on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Three Lions begin their World Cup campaign on 17 June against Croatia and also face Ghana and Panama in Group L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice will be England’s vice-captain for the World Cup. Rice has earned 72 caps for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-690603","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\/690603","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=690603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}