Wolves star can't wait to star on Pro Evolution Soccer on Xbox 360

May 3 2009 by Lisa Smith, Sunday Mercury

FOR games enthusiast Richard Stearman the fact he will be a Premier League player next season will really only sink in when he gets the new season’s fixture list and then finds himself and his team-mates caricatured on the latest X-box football game!

The Wolves defender and England Under-21 star is a fan of computer games and says it will give him great pleasure to be able to select Wolves as one of the Premier League sides available when playing the cult Pro-Evolution football game.

Stearman and his team-mates regularly challenge each other to matches and the Leicester-born youngster says featuring in the game himself will be incredible.

The 21-year-old said: “This has been the perfect season and I could not have asked for anything more.

“It has been great getting promoted, winning the Championship and I played in the majority of the games too so I am happy.

“I dabble on the Pro-Evo game all the time and to think our team will be on it next season is great.

“It will be cool actually playing myself on the screen – it is unbelievable really!

“It will be a really great sign that we have made it. That and being on Match of the Day!”

With the Championship season now done and dusted as far as Wolves are concerned, Stearman is awaiting a possible call-up to the England Under-21s who play in the European Under-21 Championship finals in Malmo, Sweden, next month.