Arrests reportedly made after theft of equipment from England's World Cup team before opener

The English nationalist squad is inactive a fewer days distant from their World Cup opener, but it has already been an eventful tourney for them aft immoderate of their instrumentality was stolen portion en way to the team's grooming basal successful Kansas City.

The Three Lions commencement their tourney slate connected Wednesday successful Arlington, Texas, against Croatia, but their basal of operations for the tourney volition beryllium Kansas City's Swope Soccer Village.

According to the BBC, the program was to determination instrumentality into spot earlier the squad arrived connected Saturday; however, immoderate of the vehicles moving that instrumentality were breached into. The theft is believed to person happened astatine immoderate constituent connected its travel from Florida to Kansas City.

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England's Noni Madueke and Harry Kane bid connected Saturday astatine Swope Soccer Village successful Kansas City. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP via Getty Images)

Police responded to the theft connected Friday night, and portion footwear was among the items stolen, nary of the missing instrumentality was considered indispensable for the squad to play.

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"We are investigating a imaginable theft of instrumentality from a squad conveyance that arrived successful Kansas City with items missing this evening," a Kansas City Police spokesperson said. "The probe is ongoing."

Well, the probe panned out, due to the fact that the instrumentality was yet recovered and 2 arrests person been made successful transportation with the incident.

The English nationalist squad poses for a photograph earlier their last lucifer earlier the World Cup connected June 10 astatine Inter&Co Stadium successful Orlando, FL. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)

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England follows up their lucifer against Croatia successful Arlington with a lucifer successful Boston against Ghana connected June 23. They volition past decorativeness up their radical signifier slate with a lucifer against Panama successful New Jersey.

The squad is expected to marque it retired of the radical signifier and perchance adjacent triumph the group.