Raheem Sterling is leaving England’s World Cup camp and returning home to the UK after armed intruders broke into his home on Saturday night.
in the last 16 on Sunday evening, the English FA announced that Sterling would not be involved in the squad due to a ‘family matter’.
It has now emerged that Sterling’s young family were the victims of an armed robbery at their home in London on the eve of the Senegal game.winger was not in the right frame of mind to play on Sunday and will return home to be with his family – though could fly back to Qatar in time for Saturday’s quarter-final clash against France.
Asked if he thinks Sterling will feature in the rest of the tournament, manager Gareth Southgate told ITV after the Senegal win: ’We’ve got to wait and see. ‘At the moment, clearly, the priority is for him to be with his family and we’re going to support him and we’re going to leave him to have as much time as he needs.’Asked if that means Sterling will return to the UK, Southgate confirmed: ‘He’s going home, yeah.
‘I really don’t know [if he will return]. At the moment it’s a situation that he needs time with his family to deal with and I don’t want to put him under any pressure with that.Skipper Harry Kane echoed his manager’s thoughts, saying: ‘Our thoughts are with him and his family.
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