{"id":62763,"date":"2025-03-14T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62763"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T10:53:07","slug":"tuchel-names-first-england-squad-drops-grealish-recalls-rashford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/14\/tuchel-names-first-england-squad-drops-grealish-recalls-rashford\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuchel Names First England Squad, Drops Grealish, Recalls Rashford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel has unveiled his first England squad, recalling Jordan Henderson and Marcus Rashford while omitting Manchester City\u2019s Jack Grealish in a bold selection shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s Myles Lewis-Skelly and Newcastle\u2019s Dan Burn have earned their first call-ups, signaling Tuchel\u2019s intent to blend youth with experience.<\/p>\n<p>However, Arsenal prodigy Ethan Nwaneri, Nottingham Forest\u2019s Morgan Gibbs-White, Tottenham\u2019s Djed Spence, and Atletico Madrid\u2019s Conor Gallagher were left out.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea captain Reece James also returns after missing Euro 2024, joining Henderson and Rashford in making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel, who succeeded Gareth Southgate in October 2024, will make his England managerial debut against Albania at Wembley on March 21, followed by a clash with Latvia on March 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Adenike Lawal Thomas Tuchel has unveiled his first England squad, recalling Jordan Henderson and Marcus Rashford while omitting Manchester City\u2019s Jack Grealish in a bold selection shake-up. Arsenal\u2019s Myles Lewis-Skelly and Newcastle\u2019s Dan Burn have earned their first call-ups, signaling Tuchel\u2019s intent to blend youth with experience. However, Arsenal prodigy Ethan Nwaneri, Nottingham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62765,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62763\/revisions\/62765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}