premier football team trial

[footimum]

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??

[factor-fiction]

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!

[RevFunk]

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]

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