 My name is Yusef Sawala, I am 17 years old and I joined the Wanderers back in 2015. I've been at the club since basically the academy started and I've been enjoying every single minute of it. The call-up came from in Crook, from a phone call to my parents and when I was basically told my dad I was very excited to be joining like a great club, a big club in this country and basically I really enjoy the professional environment. It's a great setup here with great coaches you know and many good talented players. Oh it's really encouraging you know you see that when players they deserve chances they're willing to give it unlike so maybe other clubs. The staff are willing to give chances to youth and are willing to let them have a chance you know and it's great for the club and it's very encouraging as me for a player to hopefully one day progress to the first team. But I really enjoyed a trip to China last year as a team and it felt like we really showed that as a team as Wanderers can compete with one of the biggest teams in Europe and stuff like that. Well we were meant to come into the tournament and we probably considered the underdogs but as every game played we showed more and more that we're really up there compared to them and we can really compete and just shows how many talented players we have coming through especially at the Wanderers. Well I started maybe kicking the ball around in my backyard when I was two and then came from my mum's side, my grandparents and they sort of played football, came from a football culture so I sort of got encouraged to play and then shared a bit of promise when I was five and then ever since then I've been playing every year. I play as a midfielder and I like to you know share the ball around very try and score as many goals as possible and just basically do my best for the team.