Newly appointed Wales manager Craig Bellamy says he had not realised the 'emotional attachment' he had to his country until taking the job.
Newly appointed Wales manager Craig Bellamy says he had not realised the "emotional attachment" he had to his country until taking the job.
Despite his long international career and spells playing for hometown club Cardiff City, Bellamy said his feelings for Wales have "come back even stronger". "I wasn’t sure if it was something I wanted to do, I’m not here for financial reasons, but for me it was the emotional attachment to it."It hasn’t left me, I thought it had, but it’s come back even stronger.
After retiring from playing, he worked with the academies at Cardiff City and Belgian giants Anderlecht, before joining Burnley as the assistant to Vincent Kompany. “If I don’t prepare and don’t put the effort in and you lose, that’s something I really struggle with.
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