Sources: Sterling leaves WC after home invasion

AL KHOR, Qatar -- Raheem Sterling volition alert backmost to England aft missing the 3-0 World Cup round-of-16 win implicit Senegal, the Football Association (FA) confirmed connected Sunday, with sources telling ESPN his location was the people of an equipped robbery.

The 27-year-old held talks with manager Gareth Southgate connected the greeting of the crippled aft learning his Surrey location was breached into connected Saturday evening.

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Southgate confirmed aft England's triumph that Sterling has been released and volition question to London, with nary instrumentality day set, but sources person told ESPN the Chelsea winger is hopeful of playing immoderate further portion successful the tourney erstwhile helium has spent clip with his family.

Full details of the incidental are unclear, though sources person told ESPN immoderate of Sterling's household and adjacent friends, including his girlfriend, Paige, and 2 of his children, were successful Qatar portion his parent is understood to beryllium backmost successful London.

England volition look France successful the quarterfinal signifier connected Saturday astatine the Al Bayt Stadium, wherever goals from Jordan Henderson, Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka saw Southgate's broadside cruise to triumph against Senegal pursuing a cagey opening.

The FA confirmed Sterling was "dealing with a household matter," and pursuing the match, Southgate said: "Raheem, arsenic our connection says, is having to woody with a household concern truthful he's going backmost to England. We've got to springiness him clip to effort to resoluteness that oregon beryllium determination for his family. That's the astir important happening astatine this time. So we are going to springiness him that space.

"It didn't interaction squad selection. I spent a batch of clip with Raheem this morning. You cognize you person days wherever events happen, and you person to woody with them. He is connected his mode home, and we're evidently mindful of him being allowed abstraction and privateness respected truthful we aren't going to speech successful excessively overmuch detail.

"Of course, it is not perfect for the radical up of a large game, but it pales into insignificance. The idiosyncratic is much important than the radical successful those moments. I needed to look aft the concern and past I had to walk that onto others to woody with this day successful bid to get him home."

England skipper Kane said of Sterling: "Our thoughts are with him and his family. It's a backstage matter, but it's ne'er casual to spot 1 of your teammates and friends woody with thing similar that.

"We'll person to instrumentality it time by day. I'm definite Raheem volition talk to the manager and instrumentality the champion determination for him and his family. That's the astir important thing. We nonstop him our champion wishes and anticipation to spot him arsenic soon arsenic possible."