Craig Bellamy is fully focused on returning to action for West Ham United next season as he looks to a playing return with Wales on Wednesday night.
The 28-year-old striker, who could win his 50th cap against Iceland in Reykjavik before Sunday's trip to face the Netherlands, is working harder than ever before to be raring to go for West Ham United next season. "I am not coming back just to hopefully be good at this level," he told a recent fans forum. "I want to be back when I come back. I want the next couple of years to be the highlight of my career and to do that I have got to work so hard ... Sometimes when you come back from rehab you are finding your way back but this time I have come back right and in good condition."
Bellamy, who scored four goals in nine appearances during his first campaign in east London, has been on an intense personal training programme and was even working with Cardiff City once the Premier League season concluded in order to further his progress. The chance to get some match practice with Wales this week will be another step forward to leaving the "frustrating" abdominal injury problems of the past campaign behind him. He added: "It has been disappointing but I will look back hopefully in the next few years and say I have had three or four of the best years of my career. That is what I am trying to do and that is what I am working for."