Charlie has been to Holland! ‘Charlie plays for Jarrow Dynamos Blues U10’s and we have fundraised the whole trip for the full team. We travelled over last Thursday and we all got picked up by a coach then drove to the ferry at North Shields which we travelled on overnight. We arrived in Holland, Amsterdam on Friday morning, we then visited the Ajax team football stadium then travelled to our hotel in Oisterwijk. Charlie and his team then played a friendly with one of the local Dutch teams.
The next day we were all up early and ready for the tournament at the V.V. Trinitas football ground which saw over 48 teams from 6 different countries.

Charlie played teams from Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, England and Scotland. Charlie and his team mates played some excellent football which led them to finish second in their league which meant they were through to the semi finals. They lost the semis to a very good English side from Kent who went onto winning their age group in the tournament. So they played for 3rd or 4th place , unfortunately losing 1-0 with minutes to go the opposition scored an excellent goal, so Charlie and his team mates placed 4th in the tournament out of 12 for his age group.

Fantastic experience for them all with some brilliant football played!’