{"id":513426,"date":"2026-06-12T05:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=513426"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:22:05","slug":"bellingham-shares-players-need-to-feel-loved-playing-for-england","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bellingham-shares-players-need-to-feel-loved-playing-for-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellingham shares players need to feel loved playing for England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Lions star Jude Bellingham has talked about the importance of footballers needing to &#8220;feel loved&#8221; as he will try to win the World Championship with his country.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 World Cup already started as Mexico defeated South Africa 2-0 in the opener, while England will play their 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at the competition on Wednesday when they face Croatia in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Jude was part of the squad that reached the final at Euro 2024, where England lost to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the European championship, some of the things off the pitch were not good,\u201d Bellingham revealed. \u201cEven when we won matches, we didn\u2019t play really well, and that was a reason for extra stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jude added that this time things are better, and the players learned from the experience, and now everything is more positive on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham also shared that every player must feel loved and that it\u2019s a huge part of the squad, and that\u2019s how everyone feels right now in England.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jude Bellingham on his relationship with Morgan Rogers ahead of England&#39;s opening match of the 2026 World Cup against Croatia \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wR4E284Tcp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wR4E284Tcp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkyFootball\/status\/2065354625847337026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Lions star Jude Bellingham has talked about the importance of footballers needing to &#8220;feel loved&#8221; as he will try to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":513427,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,16882],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18341,19121],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Jude revealed that they need to feel loved representing England.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513428,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513426\/revisions\/513428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513426"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=513426"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=513426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}