The English national team is still a few days away from their World Cup opener, but it has already been an eventful tournament for them after some of their equipment was stolen while en route to the team’s training base in Kansas City.
The Three Lions start their tournament slate on Wednesday in Arlington, Texas, against Croatia, but their base of operations for the tournament will be Kansas City’s Swope Soccer Village.
According to the BBC, the plan was to move equipment into place before the team arrived on Saturday; however, some of the vehicles moving that equipment were broken into. The theft is believed to have happened at some point on its journey from Florida to Kansas City.
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Police responded to the theft on Friday night, and while footwear was among the items stolen, none of the missing equipment was considered essential for the team to play.
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“We are investigating a possible theft of equipment from a team vehicle that arrived in Kansas City with items missing this evening,” a Kansas City Police spokesman said. “The investigation is ongoing.”
Well, the investigation panned out, because the equipment was eventually recovered and two arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
England follows up their match against Croatia in Arlington with a match in Boston against Ghana on June 23. They will then finish up their group stage slate with a match against Panama in New Jersey.
The team is expected to make it out of the group stage and possibly even win the group.
