Everton leftback Leighton Baines earned just his second England cap in Monday's friendly against Mexico and is desperate for a spot in Fabio Capello's final 23-man roster for the World Cup. Just not desperate enough to keep the realities of his crippling homesickness to himself.
Says the 25-year-old grown man via The Mirror:
Everyone wants to be a part of England, to come away and play, but I have always found it really hard, even when I was teenager, being away from home.
I have always struggled with it, that's quite tough, but the more time you spend around the lads, the more you begin to feel part of everything.
They are all good lads, everyone is friendly and gets on with each other. There's no case of feeling out the picture.
It takes time to settle in fully but the lads make it easier for you. There is a good spirit and that is a real help.
Aw. Well, I'm sure Capello would gladly leave the Merseyside native back home with his favorite blanket in favor of someone who could suck it up and keep from getting a shaky lip at the thought of living in a decadent hotel on another continent for a month in order to play in the World Cup.
As Baines says, this kind of panic is nothing new for him. When he was a kid, he couldn't play Sunday League football because he would get too embarrassed around the kids who weren't from his school. But I guess we should just be amazed that he's a successful Premier League footballer and not accepting meals through his letterbox at this point.
Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog...tually-worried-about-homesickn?urn=sow,243993
Says the 25-year-old grown man via The Mirror:
Everyone wants to be a part of England, to come away and play, but I have always found it really hard, even when I was teenager, being away from home.
I have always struggled with it, that's quite tough, but the more time you spend around the lads, the more you begin to feel part of everything.
They are all good lads, everyone is friendly and gets on with each other. There's no case of feeling out the picture.
It takes time to settle in fully but the lads make it easier for you. There is a good spirit and that is a real help.
Aw. Well, I'm sure Capello would gladly leave the Merseyside native back home with his favorite blanket in favor of someone who could suck it up and keep from getting a shaky lip at the thought of living in a decadent hotel on another continent for a month in order to play in the World Cup.
As Baines says, this kind of panic is nothing new for him. When he was a kid, he couldn't play Sunday League football because he would get too embarrassed around the kids who weren't from his school. But I guess we should just be amazed that he's a successful Premier League footballer and not accepting meals through his letterbox at this point.
Link: http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog...tually-worried-about-homesickn?urn=sow,243993
