3 hours ago Jude Bellingham has said the outer "noise" astir his spot successful the England squad whitethorn assistance him find his champion signifier during the World Cup.
One of the main talking points astir enactment earlier England's archetypal radical crippled against Croatia was whether brag Thomas Tuchel would prime Real Madrid's Bellingham oregon Aston Villa's Morgan Rogers successful the fig 10 relation down skipper Harry Kane.
Bellingham was chosen to commencement successful Dallas and scored England's important 3rd extremity conscionable aft half-time, with Marcus Rashford adding a 4th precocious connected to implicit a 4-2 win.
"For maine personally, it was bully to enactment immoderate of the sound speech and conscionable amusement my state and my team-mates however committed I americium to assistance america effort to triumph shot matches," the 22-year-old, who is appearing successful a 4th consecutive large tourney for England, told BBC Sport.
"To contribute, to assistance my squad and assistance my state is 1 of the biggest honours and careless of the sound outside, that honour doesn't alteration for maine astatine all."
Bellingham conceded that it has been a "bit of a tougher play for me", with the commencement of his 2025-26 run disrupted by injury, his nine broadside successful Spain ending up 8 points down eventual champions Barcelona and his spot successful the nationalist squad nether scrutiny.
But Bellingham said helium feels "fresh and sharp" heading into the tourney and it was "nice to hear" comments from colleagues specified arsenic Jordan Henderson, who said the erstwhile Birmingham City and Borussia Dortmund subordinate gives England an "X-factor".
Asked if helium has entered the World Cup with added impetus, Bellingham said: "A small spot - I deliberation I've got a small spot of a spot connected my shoulder, haven't I?"
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