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發表於 2008-8-27 20:17:15
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Vidic 'hates England and wants Spain move'
A case of mistranslation or the latest United star wanting to quit
Manchester? An interview with Red Devils' defender Nemanja Vidic is sure to
cause a storm after the Serbian international was quoted as saying he
loathed the climate in England and aimed to play in Spain.
Russian magazine Football Weekly this month carries an interview in which
Vidic may well have placed his long-term Manchester United future in doubt.
The 26-year-old defender said he had found it hard to adapt to life in
England, saying: 'I will never stay to live in England, that's for sure. You
get only a brief glimpse of sunlight before it's all cloudy again. The
winters are mild, but in summer the temperatures seldom go higher than 20C.
And it rains, rains, rains.
And he had harsh words for the quality of life for the country where he
arrived in January 2006 after a spell at Spartak Moscow.
'It's not only the weather that I'm not happy about here. In Russia and
Serbia the people's way of life is similar. In England it's totally
different. Here they just don't have time to feel the joy of life.
'Throughout the week they all work so hard. They only talk to people at
lunch break. Then in the evening they come home and watch the telly, so they
can get up early for work the next day.
'The only time to meet friends is at weekends, but for football players it's
the busiest time of all. It was much easier for me to adapt to Russia than
England. In England I had no one to talk to. The first month was especially
hard. I lived alone in a hotel, which I left only for training. I thought I
would go crazy inside those four walls.'
Following the summer-long tug-of-war over Cristiano Ronaldo, Vidic's words
about his playing future will have a familiar air to United fans: 'In
future, I would like to test myself in another top league. I'm thinking of
Spain. At least there will be no reason to complain about the weather.
And Mancunian fans of the English and European champions may well take
offence at the comment that 'in England, they say that Manchester is the
city of rain. Its main attraction is considered to be the timetable at the
railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.'
United and Vidic's next step will be one to look out for.
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