Southgate 'pushing' Rice to be leader in England squad

England manager Gareth Southgate says he knew Declan Rice had leadership potential right from the start

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00:00 Did you sense leadership potential in him the first time you saw him?

00:03 Yeah, no question. You get a feel for a human being and often their family play a big part in that.

00:15 With Dec, you could sense that stability, maturity in the decision-making process

00:23 that he was going through. And of course, has led from a very young age at West Ham as well.

00:29 So he's already gained some good experiences and I'm pushing him in that aspect as well because

00:38 it would be easy to take a little step back because we've got a lot of older players here,

00:43 but some of our young ones have got great leadership already. And they're more than

00:49 entitled to be bossing the older ones around a little bit as well and demanding of them and

00:54 of us as a coaching staff and driving the team. And he's got all those qualities and the respect

00:59 of everybody to do that.