Everton defender http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-c13152 Capello at the eleventh hour, informing him that he won’t play any part in the Three Lions World Cup campaign in 2010.
The 27-year old was initially named in the 30-man preliminary squad for the grand football event by the Italian, but was eventually dropped from the team.
Baines, a veteran of 202 matches for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Theo-Walcott-c34873, from Capello who quashed his World Cup
dream by informing him of his omission.
He told the reporters, “We were both put through to the manager, who said, 'I'm sorry, you won't be coming with us, but I look forward to seeing you for the qualifiers. Thank you and goodbye.' That was it.”
However, the former Wigan Athletic player mentioned that his initial inclusion in the provisional squad had come as a surprise to him, as he felt that there were players much better than him at that time.
He pointed out that after being named in the squad, players tend to set their expectations high and hence he was despondent upon missing the trip to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/South-Africa-c757.
Nevertheless, Baines indicated that he was now in a totally different position after being included in the national squad for the forthcoming Euro 2012 competition.
He continued, “This time I've been involved in pretty much all the squads. It was just nice to make the final cut.”
Talking of the media reports attributing his excision from the World Cup team in 2010 to his problem of homesickness, Baines termed the surmises as blatant absurdity. He explained that he arrived back to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Australia-c746 and his
statement that he missed his family while being away from home had been misconstrued as homesickness.
He added, “I don't know if it had an impact and never will. I'd like to think I'd have been asked about it, if it was an issue, just to check if it was true.”
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