England stars begin journey to Germany to luxury Euro 2024 base as Harry Kane and Co look to lead nation to glory

The Three Lions hopefuls will be hoping to go one better than they managed last time out, when they suffered heartbreak by losing to Italy in a penalty shootout final.

Southgate, who has refused to say whether this will be his last tournament in charge, went bold with his 26-player squad selection.

Favourites such as Harry Maguire and Jack Grealish were left out of the team, while it will be a debut tournament for the likes of Kobbie Mainoo, Cole Palmer and Adam Wharton.

Those selected to shoulders the nations hopes of winning a first major international tournament since 1966 met up at St. George’s Park yesterday.

Today the team are travelling to their five-star Golfresort Weimarer Land base camp, near to east-German town of Blankenhain, which the FA have reportedly paid £800,000 for.

Jill Scott and Josh Denvel caught up with the players before they boarded the coach at around 2pm.

The team were seen in an all-black outfit as they boarded.

Some stars including Harry Kane, Ollie Watkins, Declan Rice and Aaron Ramsdale were seen grabbing a hot drink.

Other stars were caught up with after signing some autographs for fans.

After acclimatising to their surroundings, the first training session the team will then have will commence on Tuesday June 11.

England kick off their tournament on Sunday June 16 against Serbia in Gelsenkirchen.

The Three Lions will then play Denmark in Frankfurt on June 20 before the final group game against Slovenia in Cologne on June 25.

Since a strong qualifying campaign ending in November, England have not been in ideal form going into the tournament.

March saw England lose 1-0 to Brazil and draw 2-2 to Belgium.

England then landed their first win of 2024 against Bosnia Herzegovina on June 3 with a 3-0 victory, before being stunned 1-0 by Iceland last Friday.

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