Twenty Local Youth Soccer Players Invited National Residential Camp

Twenty youth area soccer players have been invited to the West Ham United North American Academy National Residential Camp, selected from a group of eighty that participated in a West Ham camp at the Bladium in Alameda earlier this month.

Players that do well in the national camp can go on to the West Ham Academy Experience next spring in London.

They 20 players are:

Adrian Jacobs
Andreas Backler
Belle Reader
Benjamin Pennell
Caleb Garza
Constantin Papadopoulos
David Arenas
Finn Hartigan O’Connor
Giulia Salemme
Ivan Melendez
Jack Lingle
Liam O’Brien
Manuel Gomez
Max Walters
Micaela Franklin
Owen Flanagan
Ryan Fitzer
Ryan Phe
Stefanie Petrova
Tre Roach

Players were assessed by coach Andy Thompson of the West Ham International Academy. He has been involved in youth soccer for 10 years and is currently the Director at Premier UK Soccer in North Carolina.