Arsenal, West Ham, Chelsea and Gillingham scouts search for football's stars of the future in Medway
14:45, 11 November 2019
updated: 15:31, 21 November 2019
Is your son the next Lionel Messi? Maybe your daughter could rival Alex Morgan?
Take your little ones to a football talent scouting session and they could get signed by a Premier League club.
We Make Footballers brought their Talent Identification Events to Kent for the first time on Sunday at the session at Woodlands Primary School, Woodlands Road, Gillingham.
Boys and girls are invited to show their skills to coaches and scouts from Arsenal, West Ham, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Gillingham.
Two training sessions for children aged between five and eight and for nine to 12-year-olds were held.
Franchise owner Curtis George said: "I noticed that children in Kent don't have as many opportunities to get into clubs as those in London.
"I'm local, I'm from Gillingham, so I decided to bring We Make Footballers down here."
Mr George also works for Crystal Palace FC Women's Academy and is running the Medway sessions with Thomas Murphy, who is a sports scientist at Gillingham FC.
The pair also plan to run weekly sessions at the school on Tuesday evenings and new bookings will get a free session.
If all goes well youngsters from the Towns could follow in the footsteps of Chelsea defender and former Gravesend Grammar student Fikayo Tomori in the England squad.
All coaches will be FA qualified as well as DBS checked and parents will be able to watch the training session.
To book the event click here.
Tickets are £5 which covers the cost of the event and profits made will be donated to the Street Soccer Foundation.
The charity helps vulnerable people improve their life skills through playing football.
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