FOXBOROUGH, MA – English midfielder Jude Bellingham had a brief, verbal tiff with Ghana manager Carlos Queiroz and the Ghanaian bench at the end of the first half of England’s 0-0 draw with Ghana on June 23.
Bellingham explained exactly what happened after the 2026 World Cup match and took responsibility for starting the minor spat.
“I made a silly tackle, to be honest,” Bellingham told reporters. “I was trying to win the ball and I followed through a little bit and caught the lad.”
Bellingham said that he spoke to the player he clipped after it happened, but Ghana’s bench immediately sprang up and appealed for the referee Saíd Martínez to give the 22-year-old Englishman a yellow card.
Martínez declined to book Bellingham. However, the star midfielder did exchange words with Queiroz as the two sides left the pitch before each was ushered away from one another by their respective teams.
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