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New Chelsea manager, Xabi Alonso, has confirmed that Reece James volition stay skipper of the team.
Alonso has officially resumed enactment with the Premier League club, arsenic pre-season begins this week.
However, helium erstwhile Spain midfielder is presently grooming with a reduced squad arsenic the World Cup begins to wrapper up.
James and Enzo Fernandez volition play against each different successful the semi-final of the contention on Wednesday night, erstwhile England play Argentina.
But Alonso has said James volition get the skipper’s armband connected his return.
“He tin bash everything,” Alonso said astir 27-year-old James.
“He tin onslaught from wrong oregon outside. He tin deliver, he’s bully astatine set-pieces, helium has bluish DNA, which is precise important, and we transmit that to the full squad and caller players. He’s going to beryllium the captain.”
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