{"id":220264,"date":"2026-08-11T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/gallery-world-cup-blues-and-new-boys-report-for-duty-news-official-site-chelsea-football-club\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T23:02:11","slug":"gallery-world-cup-blues-and-new-boys-report-for-duty-news-official-site-chelsea-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/gallery-world-cup-blues-and-new-boys-report-for-duty-news-official-site-chelsea-football-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery: World Cup Blues and new boys report for duty | News | Official Site &#8211; Chelsea Football Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                      The last of Chelsea&#x2019;s international players who spent the summer at the FIFA World Cup returned to club duty on Tuesday, including four new signings linking up with their team-mates at Cobham for the first time.                  <br \/>A few of the Blues contingent competing for their countries in North America during the summer had already joined the squad during our pre-season tour of Australia and Asia, but the last remaining absentees who were involved in the latter stages of the World Cup were back today.<br \/>That included <a href=\"\/en\/teams\/profile\/reece-james\">Reece James<\/a>, <a href=\"\/en\/teams\/profile\/malo-gusto\">Malo Gusto<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/teams\/profile\/enzo-fernandez\">Enzo Fernandez<\/a> \u2013 who all progressed to the semi-finals and beyond at the World Cup \u2013 returning from their delayed summer break to get back to work ahead of the coming campaign.<br \/>Alongside them, there were also four new faces getting to work at Cobham for the first time on Tuesday, as summer signings Morgan Rogers, <a href=\"\/en\/teams\/profile\/jordan-henderson\">Jordan Henderson<\/a>, <a href=\"\/en\/teams\/profile\/valentin-barco\">Valentin Barco<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/teams\/profile\/maxence-lacroix\">Maxence Lacroix <\/a>reported for duty as Chelsea players after completing moves during their post-World Cup break.<br \/>Keep scrolling to see some of our favourite images from James, Gusto and Fernandez\u2019s return, as well as Rogers, Henderson, Barco and Lacroix\u2019s first day at Cobham, below\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxPRHNDa2tyODB4b3hldlhndnJCNjhzZ293YTdvSzgtR1V3eFBfc0lNMjU1Z0NRX1dsNGppUEd5allKSkFrN3B6ZGlyWi1hS2ozSnJJd0drN3pfUWRaS28wNmI0X3BvMXh1eUdpQ3dYVi1EUWRxSlNsZ0JnelJUUlcydzA5STROSjAyMnUwbko4WFdJcHlFbzdpeTJ3?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of Chelsea&#x2019;s international players who spent the summer at the FIFA World Cup returned to club duty on Tuesday, including four new signings linking up with their team-mates at Cobham for the first time. A few of the Blues contingent competing for their countries in North America during the summer had already joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}