England's Bright out of camp due to burnout

Millie Bright has said she withdrew from this England campy due to the fact that she is "mentally and physically" astatine her limit.

Bright is an integral fig for England. She captained the Lionesses successful the 2023 World Cup and was determination passim their 2022 European Championship triumph.

On Monday, she stepped distant from the England squad for their Nations League matches against Portugal and Spain. The crushed fixed by the Football Association was that she was undertaking "an extended play of recovery."

But speaking connected her "Daly Brightness" podcast, the England mainstay opened up connected the reasons down her withdrawal. Her erstwhile England teammate and champion person Rachel Daly asked if she was okay, and Bright responded: "probably not astatine this moment."

"I deliberation mentally and physically I'm astatine my limits, which is wherefore I'm not astatine camp," Bright said. "That is simply a truly hard determination but I deliberation you cognize amended than anyone arsenic good -- sometimes you conscionable person to instrumentality that clip for yourself.

"You request to worth yourself and your intelligence wellness and body, and conscionable accidental that no, close present is not the clip for you."

Bright's withdrawal was followed by Mary Earps' daze announcement connected Tuesday that she had retired from planetary duty. England commencement their Euros defence against France connected July 5.