Imagine being a professional footballer plying your trade in a foreign country (Canada), having to play home games in the USA, travelling on international duty back home (Finland) where you haven’t been in a year and not being allowed to see your folks when you get there. Oh! and that’s despite them living only five minutes away from the team hotel...
Then... flying back to your club team’s New Jersey base, isolating for a further ten days and finally getting back to Montreal and immediate family, on 2 November.
That’s the current lot of Impact captain Jukka Raitala.