Amos Xira - Aged 12 - Trial for West Ham United

Amos Xira - Aged 12 - Trial for West Ham United

Premier League side West Ham United were recently impressed with 12-year-old central midfielder Amos Xira, and offered him the chance to trial with the club after seeing him play at our five day camp back in April.

 

Talking to Amos’ father, he gave us some information on his son’s footballing background, explaining: “Amos plays as a central midfielder/attacking midfielder, but he can play anywhere in midfield really and even defensively. When he was playing from the age of 6-8 he was a centre half but was then moved forward.”

 

This wasn’t Amos’ first trial, nor was it his first opportunity with a Premier League club, having trained with a rival of West Ham’s previously. We spoke to his father who told us: “From the age of 3-6 he was with Tottenham in the development centre.”

 

“Unfortunately it got to the point that it was too difficult to send him there with work, and sometimes it would take an hour and a half to drive there with the traffic. I probably should not have stopped him but I had a difficult choice to make.” He added.

 

When asked what the trial with West Ham entailed, Amos’ father explained: “We went down there and he was put into training with the under 13’s, training went perfect, he really enjoyed it. They started the session with stretching, running and warming up. Then they were doing drills with the ball so passing, control and things like this. At the end they played matches.”

 

“West Ham were very good, it was extremely professional.” He added.

 

Since his first trial with West Ham on April 29th, Amos has been training every week with them, with both himself and the club being very happy with his performances.

 

We at UK Football Trials would like to wish Amos the very best with West Ham and hope he can continue to perform well and go on to sign with the club.

 

 

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