KALVIN PHILLIPS

DOHA, Qatar — (AP) — When even Declan Rice admits a mid-season World Cup is proving physically challenging, it's time to take note. That has meant a disruption to the Premier League and top flight domestic competitions in other countries, with players thrust into the intensity of a World Cup just a few months into the season. There are players who have played in the biggest games, won the biggest trophies. They’ve won a World Cup. We want to go the whole way.”___James Robson is at https://twitter.com/jamesalanrobson___AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

It’s time to take note when even Declan Rice admits a mid-season World Cup is proving physically challenging, The workhorse England midfielder said he was feeling the strain after playing three games already in Qatar with a match against Senegal in the round of 16 coming up Sunday.

DOHA, Qatar — (AP) — It's been nine years since then-English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke set the national team the bold target of winning the 2022 World Cup. At the last World Cup in Russia, Southgate led his team to the semifinals, which was ahead of Dyke’s schedule. “I’d like to see us doing well in the under-20s World Cup in 2017,” he said. Not a single player that featured in the final of the under-20 World Cup-winning team is part of Southgate’s squad in Qatar. But England enters this World Cup with a sense of what might have been.

It's been nine years since then-English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke set the national team the bold target of winning the 2022 World Cup.

The European Championship final between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium on Sunday has all the makings of a tight and tense title match.

Many British people of color have long had an ambivalent relationship with symbols of Englishness and England's national soccer team.

Raheem Sterling scored his first tournament goal to give England a 1-0 victory over Croatia at the European Championship.

Manchester City's head coach Pep Guardiola, left, talks with Leeds United's head coach Marcelo Bielsa at the end of the English Premier League soccer match between Leeds United and Manchester City at Elland Road in Leeds, England, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. What to make of seeing his Manchester City side held 1-1 by Bielsa's Leeds on Saturday? While Leeds had seven shots on target, Raheem Sterling's 16th-minute strike low shot inside the far post was one of only two for City. We must do more and better.”Especially with City already eight points behind Everton, which is the early leader after beating Brighton 4-2 to make it four wins out of four. Fifth-place Leeds, which like Everton has played a game more than City, is still three points ahead of Guardiola's side.