 Welcome to newsclick.in. We're very pleased to have with us one of the stars of the India under-17 World Cup squad, Dheeraj Moirangtham. He's gone from Moirang in Manipur all the way to Motherwell in Scotland where he's sitting right now doing what I believe is one of the first interviews he's done with the Indian media since he's been in Scotland. He's on trial with Motherwell FC. Let's get straight into it. Dheeraj, first thing, what's the weather like right now? It's too cold. It's around 1-3 degrees. Sometimes it goes to minus. So how's it been? You've been there for three days and you've already done two or three training sessions. What are your first impressions of the club and sort of playing there, practising there? They're very friendly and nice people out there so they welcome me very nicely and the people are too good. I think I will get to learn more things besides footballs. I know a few people from that part of Scotland. The accent firstly is very difficult to understand. Are you finding that? Sometimes it's hard to catch up what they are saying. The pronunciation, the way how they talk. They talk in a flow, in a rhythm. So it was very difficult for me to sometimes catch up the language. But how is it going otherwise? How are you adjusting to training? What is the intensity like? Tell us a bit about the football. Everything is going well. We had two sessions. One in the indoor and one yesterday was outdoor. Outdoor was quite difficult for me. Just too cold. It was the very first time so I was not able to get that proper contact. My hands, my legs were freezing. My toes were getting tight and getting pain because of the cold. So it was a nice experience. So in the coming days you hope that it will get easier, it will get better. You will get accustomed to the conditions. I think I can get it to the kind of situation. Anuj was saying earlier that you are actually training with the Motherwell first team. This is now a squad that is 5th or 6th in the table in the Scottish Premier League. So the standard of players is quite high. How excited are you to be training with a high level club such as this? First of all I am very lucky enough to get to train with the first team. Most of them are really good. The stances are really high. I get to train with the top goalkeepers of their team. I train with the men goalkeepers and the men team. It was nice. Every day must be a new learning experience for you right? Basically they have matches. We are not having a hard session because the matches are going on. I had two sessions. It was quite light. It was just a fun game, fun type. I think the proper session will be starting from next week because today they have a match. So yesterday was quite light and fun. So will you get a chance to be in the stadium with the rest of the squad watching the game and things like that? Yeah I am travelling with the team for today. So that must be quite an exciting thing for you guys to be travelling with the first team squad. Is it a home game or away? Away game. So who are you playing today? A lot of people have been sort of talking about or discussing your situation like whether it is a good idea for you to play games here where you are in the iLeague. You are the first choice for Indian Arrows or go abroad for a trial and take a chance. What made you take this? I believe personally that it is an excellent decision. The sooner you go out the better the chances of your improving are. So that is my personal opinion. But what is the thought process that you had that made you reach this sort of decision to go out and try your luck? The iLeague was not a bad stander. I get to learn many things from iLeague. It was really nice playing iLeague. I got lots of experience. It was a very good platform for me actually. It is also a very good stander. For me what I think is I want to go. I am still young 17-18 so I want to try abroad as much as possible. Whether I can make it or not is another thing. But I just want to test and level up where I am so that it will be helpful in the future to get more things. So it is definitely one of your goals to play if you can, if things go well professionally outside India. Yeah, it is my dream. If I can play any of the European teams, it will be very nice and it will be a dream come true. There is a bit of, at least on social media I have seen a little bit of interaction between yourself and Gurpreet who is also a goalkeeper and he has played in Europe. Have you had any conversations, the two of you, has he sort of given you some tips on how to perhaps deal with the difficulties that come with being in a foreign country on your own? He used to motivate me a lot. Whenever you do, you give all out and take the opportunity and make the best of it. That is what you are doing. What does he say to me always? And I guess be patient. One of the things that Gurpreet keeps saying is to be patient, your chance will come. So what else, what are you looking forward to the most about this next couple of months? What aspects of your game do you think will develop? For me the coming two-three months is very important to perform well. So I can level up with them. And yeah, different coaches are different than I thought. So now I am getting different coaches. So I will try to learn as much as possible from them. And yeah, it's very important, two-three months for me. But basically it seems like a quite a friendly club, quite a close-knit kind of warm atmosphere. Is that something that you felt over there? They are very friendly, they are very kind, they are very supportive. And they are happy to have me and I am lucky enough to have this opportunity with them. On that note, I think we will wrap it up. All the best. Thank you so much.