Fikayo Tomori has not given up on his dream of representing England on the 2026 World Cup.
The AC Milan centre-back made his debut for the Three Lions in 2019 and went on to win 5 caps beneath Gareth Southgate.
Nonetheless, the previous Chelsea defender, who additionally represented his start nation Canada at Underneath-19 stage, has not been known as up for England responsibility in over two years.
Tomori has featured in 13 of Milan’s 15 Serie A video games this season, with solely Alexis Saelemaekers (23) successful extra tackles than the 28-year-old (18), whereas he has additionally gained the sixth-most duels for his facet within the competitors (39).
Though Tomori faces stern competitors for a spot in Thomas Tuchel’s squad, his hopes have been boosted by the current call-up of Milan team-mate Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
“I spoke to him after the final worldwide break in November. We’ve spoken a number of instances and the message is to maintain doing what I’m doing,” Tomori instructed BBC Sport.
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“The World Cup is six months away and there’s numerous soccer to be performed.
“I do know he’s watching and holding a watch as a result of he known as up Ruben. That provides me the arrogance I could make it.
“He got here to Milan final season and I do know he will get our knowledge and sees our clips recurrently, too.
“The way in which he’s spoken about it’s that it’s troublesome as a result of there’s so many gamers in that place, and I get it as a result of you may have gamers like John Stones, Marc Guehi, Dan Burn and Ezri Konsa.
“However the World Cup remains to be a dream and I’m working in the direction of that.”
The March worldwide break would be the final time Tuchel selects his squad earlier than his ultimate determination for the 2026 World Cup on the finish of the season.
England will face Ghana, Croatia and Panama within the group phases of subsequent summer season’s match.
