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premier football team trial

My son is 12, he has recently been asked to have a trial for a premiership football team, we havent got a clue what this will entail. If he is lucky and the team shows interest what happens next??

footimum Mon 23/06/08 13:55

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RoaldoM
Mon 23/06/08
15:15

In short, if he is talented enough he will join the teams Academy and play against other premiership academies like the one at Chelsea:

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/AboutTheAcademy/ 0,,10268,00.html

factor30
Mon 23/06/08
19:24

I wish him luck and hope he enjoys the experience. I have been involved in junior football for many years and have seen loads of promising players be taken for trials and the vast majority end up disappointed. He may find when he gets there that there's around 50 trialists there and only half a dozen or so will be asked back. Those that get through the trial may then get a few weeks, after which they are usually discarded. Some are kept on but often just to make up the numbers as the club is really only intersted in a handful of special players, often from overseas.. The chances of making a career are very slim indeed. I know England schoolboys who were considered as potential greats who were on the scrapheap a year later.
I wish him well!

Tetjam
Thurs 26/06/08
10:43

Tell him not to pass the ball, and do a lazy mazy run from deep in his own half before rounding the hapless keeper and slotting the ball into the empty net.

RevFunk
Thurs 26/06/08
10:46

Then run around the recreation pitch dodging house bricks with his shirt over his head shouting "do you want some?" at a tramp.

Perhaps.

jonesytwotwo
Fri 27/06/08
20:19

If he has talent, your feet wont touch the floor for months. If not, behave yourself, and stop winding us up.

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