Hugh Ryan and Charlie Hindmarsh attended the Canberra & Goulburn Soccer Trials yesterday and both boys had a great day of experience and skills. 

Charlie & Hugh's report from their day: 

When Charlie and I got to the field at 8:40 a.m we saw some of the other kids. They looked ready to try out like us. We went to see Ms Sheree Bush the Sporting Manager to collect our bibs. Charlie got white number 7 and Hugh got pink number 4.   Charlie and Hugh found their friend from Yass and then we passed the ball to each other getting ready for the try outs to begin. There were kids from a lot of different towns. Ben, our training coach, brought the kids over to tell us what's going to happen on the day. He said only fifteen kids could be picked out of the forty-six. 

After he finished his talk we got into some training skills. Our first skill was controlling the ball with the soul of our foot. It was a bit tricky because you didn’t want to run into someone and trip over their foot and then lose control of the ball. We kept doing different skills he taught us and then we got ready to do another drill. We worked on scoring goals and defending your goal. After that we had our last drill for the goalies and players. 

Then we moved onto the trial games. First match Charlie played Centre Midfield and he played the first game White vs Green. Charlie set up 1 goal and scored one. He had a great game. He won that match 2-0 Then it was green vs pink and Hugh was the goalie for pink. He saved a lot of awesome shots and he played really well. Pink beat green 3-1 pink winning. We both played really well throughout the rest of the games. 

Then the training coach, our coach and Sheree Bush discussed the possibles and probables. They told all the players to come over and they called out the possibles and probable match players. First up they announced the goalies but unfortunately Hugh didn’t make it. Charlie made it for midfield/striker in that match. Charlie set up 2 goals for his teammate and almost scored on his great big run. Charlie's team won by one point. Then when Charlie got home he heard that he made the team for Canberra Goulburn. We both had an amazing time!

Thank you for reading about our day and congratulations to Charlie on your selection.