England football team manager Thomas Tuchel has said he is not going to sing the national anthems ahead of the games for the upcoming fixtures of the side during the international break. “I feel that it is not just a given. You cannot just sing it. That’s why I decided that I would not sing it in my first matches,” Tuchel would say.
“I think, first of all, you have a very powerful, emotional and meaningful national anthem and I could not be more proud to be on the sidelines and be in charge of the English national team,” Tuchel said. “It means everything. It means a lot to me, I can assure you, but I can feel because it is that meaningful and it is that emotional and it is so powerful, the national anthem, that I have to earn my right to sing it.”
“Maybe I have to dive more into the culture and earn my right from you, from the players, from the supporters, so everyone feels like ‘he should sing it now, he’s one of our own, he’s the English manager, he should sing it’,” the 51-year-old said.
Earlier Lee Carsley during his interim spell was criticized for not singing in the national anthems during the games. “It has definitely not affected my day or preparation. I fully respect people’s opinions. It’s something that I’ve never done but I fully respect both national anthems,” Carsley would say at the time.
England squad
Goalkeepers: Dean Henderson, Jordan Pickford, Aaron Ramsdale, James Trafford
Defenders: Dan Burn, Levi Colwill, Marc Guéhi, Reece James, Ezri Konsa, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Tino Livramento, Jarell Quansah, Kyle Walker
Midfielders: Jude Bellingham, Eberechi Eze, Jordan Henderson, Curtis Jones, Cole Palmer, Declan Rice, Morgan Rogers
Forwards: Jarrod Bowen, Phil Foden, Anthony Gordon, Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford, Dominic Solanke
