Year 10 student, Samuel Smith, will relocate to Spain next month to join the Villarreal CF Academy, with aspirations of securing a goalkeeping position in the under 18 team.
“Hopefully they will sign me, which would be a dream come true,” he said.
The sixteen year old has been playing as goalkeeper since nine years old and says he would love to one day play for Australia and win the World Cup.
Samuel will move to Spain with his dad and brother for at least three months, and will be homeschooled during his time overseas.
Samuel recently represented Shire Christian School and the state playing as goalkeeper in the under 16s NSW All Schools Team in the School Sport Australia (SSA) National Football Championships. Samuel’s team won the competition in the final moments of their last game, beating Western Australia 7-0, the exact score required to win overall on goal differential. Samuel not only kept a clean sheet in the final game for NSW, he didn’t let in a goal for the entire competition.
At assembly on Monday, Head of Secondary School, Mr Peter Richardson, commended Samuel’s achievements to the Secondary School.
“This is an amazing achievement. We’ve never seen one of our students have an opportunity quite like this in professional football before,” he said.
“We’ll miss you, Sam. We look forward to hearing back about how you go and we’ll be supporting you from afar,” Mr Richardson said.
“Congratulations, Sam!”
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