England’s defender Dan Burn believes the team must take a cue from Argentina’s strong team spirit. The Three Lions are chasing a World Cup title for the first time in 60 years. England are among one of the favourites to win the tournament in North America.
England had made it to two consecutive Euro finals and would look to win their big title.
The squad was in Kansas City on Saturday and reigning champions Argentina were also in the same town. Head coach Thomas Tuchel recently spoke on the importance of creating brotherhood, which forward Jude Bellingham admitted was lacking in the last Euros.
“Obviously it’s hard for me to comment on what went on when I wasn’t here,” Dan Burn said.
“But we’ve made a big thing about that since the very first camp we had together, about having this brotherhood and being together.
“I feel like a lot of the time the team that end up winning tournaments like these are the teams who are close.
“If you look at Argentina at the last World Cup, you felt as if they were really fighting for each other.
“That’s what we’re wanting to do. I think it’s hard sometimes, you don’t see each other for a long amount of time and you have quite superficial conversations.
“It’s normally just like, ‘hi, how are you?’.
“But it’s about trying to get to know each other on a deeper level.”
He added: “So, what the staff have created at the hotel we’ve got now should help along with that.
“There’s people that we’ve played together with before which always helps so just keep trying to build on that.”
Burn said he wants to help the team win and go all the way in the tournament, irrespective of the minutes he gets on the pitch.
“Personally, for me, I just want to be here and help the team however possible that is, whether I start, whether I come on, whether I don’t play a minute, I’ll not feel I have contributed any less than anyone else,” he said.
“I think that’s important. I feel like this is the type of tournament where we have players who are the stars for their clubs normally, and they’re going to have to take a little bit of a different role.
“That’s leaning into that brotherhood thing again, where we are just happy for each other and happy to help out as much as we can.”
England will begin their World Cup campaign against Croatia on Wednesday.
