At Wembley, Vinicius Jr. exchanged clothes with a colleague from Jude Bellingham’s England team. Wonderkid Endrick scored his first goal for his country on Saturday, helping Brazil defeat England 1-0 at Wembley.

With eight minutes left, the 17-year-old, who will cost £62 million when he joins Real Madrid from Palmeiras this summer, scored after Jordan Pickford denied Vinicius a one-on-one opportunity. It was an odd match, with England—who were missing twelve regular first-team players—facing a team that had just hired a new manager and was experiencing its worst run of form in 22 years.

However, there was some elite quality on display in the match when England’s Bellingham faced Real Madrid teammates Vinicius and Rodrygo. This season, Bellingham and Vinicius have been Los Blancos’ talismans on the field, and they also seem to get along well off the field.

Additionally, England has made public a video showing the two exchanging shirts and embracing one another in the tunnel following the match. Notably, Vinicius firmly said, “Rice,” in response to Bellingham’s question of who should receive the winger’s renowned No. 7 Brazil shirt.

Declan Rice has been one of Arsenal’s most reliable players this season, and he carried that form into Saturday’s March international against the five-time world champions, even if it’s unclear if the shirt change had been agreed with beforehand. In other news, England manager Gareth Southgate acknowledged that, despite the outcome, he was happy with his team’s performance.

“I was pleased,” he remarked. Although it’s obvious that we dislike losing football games, I felt that several players who haven’t played much for England put on excellent individual displays. There were better, more consistent players. We made just one more attempt at goal than they did, and it made all the difference.

“There were a few excellent passes made by Brazil. You are referring to players who are at the pinnacle of the game. There will be times when your goalkeeper needs to make a save or a block by a defender. At the other end, we experienced those moments. It would have been just if there had been a draw.

We are facing a really good team. Possibilities will be restricted. Maybe we had set-piece opportunities to capitalize on one of them. The players that entered pleased me. We have to learn more about them. Ollie performed well, in my opinion. missed that clear opportunity to score the goal you may have wаnted. Many of his creations were excellent.”