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England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 One of the highest-ranked nations coming into the tournament, England hope to go one better. Suffering heartache in the last Euros, making the final for the first time but lost to Italy on penalties at Wembley. A perennial underachiever in international football, England have won a solitary World Cup in 1966 and have made just three semifinal appearances since then. Since becoming manager in late 2016, Gareth Southgate has successfully made England a competitive outfit. Making the semifinals twice in three tournaments. Criticism against Southage persists over his conservative style of play and in-game management but for Euro 2024, he has made some key decisions. Harry Maguire, Ben Chilwell, Jordan Henderson, Jack Grealish and Marcus Rashford have missed out while Kobbie Mainoo, Adam Wharton, Anthony Gordon and Cole Palmer made the final squad. Harry Kane, Phil Foden and Jude Bellingham are coming off excellent individual seasons. Kane finished top-scorer in the ...

ENGLAND           Nickname:  Three Lions           Captain: Harry Kane          Key Player: Jude Bellingham          Coach: Gareth Southgate          Last World Cup Appearance: 2018 (4th Place) England has been the butt of jokes in international football. Having produced good players, they fall short of the expectations they put on themselves and have an embarrassing result here or there. However, they are on the teams that could win the World Cup in Qatar and their showings in recent tournaments back it up. They reached the semifinals in the 2018 World Cup, their first since the 1990 edition, and made it to the Final of the European Championships last year. England's first-ever Euro final. Despite that, England is not in a good place right now. They are winless in six games, and their performances have not been encouraging. Having been on the job since 2016,...

With the international break still going on, here is some news from the international game. Sancho makes debut for Three Lions Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho has lit up the Bumdesliga this season scoring once and making six assists, which is the most across Europe's top 5 leagues. He was rewarded a call-up for England makong his debut in their Nations League tie against Croatia which ended scoreless. Sancho is the first player born in the 21st century to make his debut for England. With Gareth Southgate looking to the new generation of England players in Sancho, Maddison and Mount, they're certainly trying to build a team for the future.  Germany experience Oranje whitewash Germany have certainly not recovered from their failure at the World Cup as they lost 3-0 to the Netherlands. Goals from van Djik, Depay and Wijnaldum ensured a first victory for de Oranje against Die Mannscahft in 16 years marking a big improvement for the Netherlands under Ronald...