2024-03-15 12:02:53
Gareth Southgate, coach of the England national football team, is shocked by the refusal of the English player and Arsenal star Ben White to join the team during the upcoming international break, but he felt that it was “impossible” to hide the reason behind his absence from the Three Lions national team roster. This season, White is performing wonderfully with Arsenal, who is at the top of the English Premier League this season, and was scheduled to be part of the England national team’s 25-player roster, which will face Brazil and Belgium in a friendly match later this month.
However, Brazilian Edu, Arsenal’s sporting director, informed John McDermott, technical director of the English Football Association, last week, that White does not currently want to join the England national team, as he has not been called up since his early return to the country during the last World Cup 2022 in Qatar. White left the World Cup due to what the English Football Association described as “personal reasons”, but reports later emerged of an alleged dispute with Steve Holland, the England national team assistant.
Southgate denied those rumors yesterday, although White’s absence from the team, which was devoid of a group of stars due to injury, had already sparked controversy about the future prospects of the defender, who is good at playing in more than one position, with the England national team.
Southgate said, “John McDermott received a phone call from Edu last week to say that Ben did not want to be in the England squad at this time. For me, this is a huge shame.” Southgate added, in his statements reported by the British news agency (BA Media): “For me, the England national team is at the forefront. It is the most important.”
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