Overview
- England held a light first training session in West Palm Beach on Tuesday in about 32C heat as players began a Florida acclimatisation camp.
- Manager Thomas Tuchel said Team GB staff and outside specialists helped design cooling strategies and timed exposure plans to speed players’ adaptation.
- Several players who played in recent European finals were given extra recovery time and will join the camp later, while younger training additions are supplementing sessions.
- England will play warm-up friendlies against New Zealand in Tampa and Costa Rica in Orlando before relocating to their Kansas City base on June 13 ahead of the June 17 opener with Croatia.
- The build-up responds to the 2026 tournament’s wider challenges of high temperatures, humidity and occasional altitude and doubles as a cohesion exercise with the stated aim of winning the World Cup.