Curtis Davies was called up to an England squad but never made his senior debut — but he made his debut for Sierra Leone recently
It is over 15 years since Curtis Davies was among the 30 names called up for Fabio Capello’s very first squad. The central defender, then impressing in the with , had been earmarked as a youngster with potential back in 2008. But his ambitions to become an international footballer went unrealised once call-ups failed to yield a senior cap. Advertisement Until now. Only not with England but with the African nation of Sierra Leone.
I’d spoken with the captain before I went, , who also plays in England for , but I found it a little bit harder with the Sierra Leone lads in the camp. They speak Creole with each other and that makes it hard to jump into conversation. We almost had a European table at dinner, myself, Osman Kakay, Sullay Kaikai from Cambridge, from Dundee United and a Swedish lad called Jonathan Morsay.
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