Winger Driver still not decided on International future
November 4, 2009
Hearts winger Andrew Driver has played for England under-21’s but is also eligible to play for Scotland as he was schooled in Scotland, however the player says he would prefer to focus on improving his club form at the moment than make his decision over his international future.
“I’m not delaying the decision because I’m not sure about it,” he said.
“It’s just the fact that I want to get feeling good about myself playing football and then I’ll settle down.”
Driver moved to north Berwick at the age of 10 and although he was originally born in Oldham he represented Scotland at school boy level and due to the rule change allowing players educated for more than 5 years in a country to qualify to play for that country he does not qualify to play for the top national team however he will not be included in the friendly squad to face Wales on the 14th of November.
“I’ve been here since I was 10-years-old. All my friends are Scottish, my girlfriend’s Scottish, I was educated here, I’ve worked all my life here.
“I’ve been here more than half my life so it’s a major part of my life.”
Driver hopes to decide his international future soon, but before that he says he is determined to focus his attention on rediscovering his club form.
He said: “You don’t want to drag it on. If you drag it on, it makes it look as if I’m stalling, which shows disrespect to both nations.
“I feel it would have been a lot easier if I hadn’t my form to concentrate on.
“In the next few weeks I’ll be concentrating on that and then hopefully the decision will be made.
“It’s something that you can’t rush into. It’s a massive decision to make.”
“At the moment, I’m not going to get into the squad anyway, so there’s no point in coming out and making the decision,” he said.
“I feel if I come out and say I want to get in the squad, it makes me look arrogant, so I don’t want to rush into it and come across the wrong way.
“I want to think long and hard about it and if I do make the decision to play for Scotland, I will do it 100%; I won’t go into it halfway.
“Obviously, it was a great honour for me to play for England and it’s something in the future I’d want to do.
“But if I turn my back on them, then that is it.”
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