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Come Fan with UsWednesday, July 1, 2026

England soccer players play basketball, Wayne Rooney swats a teammate

They’re not very good, but Rooney goes hard in the paint.

England’s soccer players took some time to play awkward soccer-person basketball while they were in Miami. Daniel Sturridge filmed some and Wayne Rooney posted it to his Facebook, presumably because he made the undisputed highlight of the game:

I see some yucky handles and I see Phil Jones (I think?) bricking a jumper, but mostly I see Rooney swatting the everloving poop out of Raheem Sterling’s floater. Barefoot, no less:

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Sturridge’s reaction is most appropriate: “AAAAAAAAHAHHHHAHHHHHHPDOFKJASDOFIJASPODFIJADSFA”