NOW IT'S MY TIME TO SHINE
The Football League Paper|August 18, 2024
LIAM Millar left Canada at the age of 12 and has played professionally in three different countries, so his skepticism towards the idea of putting down roots is understandable.
Chris Dunlavy
NOW IT'S MY TIME TO SHINE

"Yeah that would be nice," says the 24-year-old, who came through the ranks at Fulham and Liverpool, made his debut for Kilmarnock, spent last season on loan at Preston and this summer joined Hull City after three years in Switzerland with FC Basel.

"My oldest daughter is just starting school now so it would be great for her to have a little bit of stability. But honestly, with how unpredictable football is, you just never know. The way I see it is that it's always good to have some roots- but keep a bag packed just in case!" Millar first packed his suitcase in 2013, leaving his mother, siblings and childhood friends behind in Toronto to start a new life in London with Fulham.

"It was probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life," says Millar, whose father Alana former Charlton youth player now working as a TV gaffer-accompanied him to the UK.

"At the time, it was just me and my dad who came over and I left my mom, my brother, my sister and all my friends.

"It was very tough. As a 12-year-old boy I wanted to play football for a living but didn't realise the sacrifice that came with it.

"You're at the age when you're just starting to make friends and you're starting to become a little bit more social and whatnot. That made it really difficult because I had to go to a different country and I didn't understand the culture.

"I'd visited England but I'd never lived there so I didn't know how people behaved and I was worried about how it would fit in with my North American ways.

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