Ben Chilwell insists Thomas Tuchel has left the door open to returning to the England team for the World Cup.

Chilwell's last England cap, his 21st in total, was in 2024 yet he has new hope of boarding the plane to North America next summer.

The left-back won the Champions League with Chelsea under Tuchel's leadership in 2021.

But injury problems set in. Chilwell tore his cruciate ligament at the end of 2021, then missed the 2022 World Cup with a hamstring injury.

He lost his Chelsea place when Enzo Maresca arrived and was forced to train alongside Raheem Sterling in a group of exiled players.

But his England hopes could be resurrected after a loan to Strasbourg in France .

"What a story it would be if I went to the World Cup after I was in the [Chelsea] bomb squad and eve

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