Homesick Sun struggling with challenge of English life
AFP, March, 2007
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MANCHESTER (AFP) — Sun Jihai admits he is still struggling to adapt to life in England, five years after arriving from China.
The Manchester City defender has endured a miserable season thanks to a succession of injuries, but his downbeat mood is not just connected to fitness concerns.
Sun, who signed for City from Dalian Wanda in 2002, has revealed that he has failed to bridge the cultural divide separating his native and adopted countries and still pines for a return to China.
"I have been here for five years and I don't feel at all integrated into English life and culture," he said. "The only reason I am here is football.
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"My family and I, we don't like the life here and we don't speak very good English. My two daughters go to the nursery and school and we don't know the culture.
"We are ...
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