City Starlets England Dream

Since breaking into Manchester City’s reserve team at the age of just 17, Javan Vidal hopes to one day wear the 3 lions and represent his country at the highest level.

The youngster has had an impressive 6 year career at City, having raced through the youth academy and now playing in the reserves. A confident Javan has not gone unnoticed by England, having been called up at 17 to play against France for the under 18 national team.

Javan received the call having been watched by England scouts on numerous occasions. He said he was “delighted” to play and was then picked up from his house and taken to Sunderland’s training ground, the venue for the friendly. He described his approach to the game as “apprehensive before the match but calm when on the field”. To fulfil every young players dream and represent his country, it has been Javan’s proudest moment to date in his ever progressive career.

He featured at Right Back against France and received praise from the England coaches. Following his debut Javan has since not been in the England set up, suffering recent lengthy injuries which have limited his football.

However Javan remains optimistic that he will one day receive another call up, and hopes it would some day come from the first team. At City Javan speaks regularly to England international and good friend Micah Richards along with keeper Joe Hart, Javan said he sometimes asks them about the difference between domestic and international level, he said:

“We don’t usually talk about it but when I ask about it Micah tells me about the pressure. He said the level is so high there’s no room for error and the technical ability at international level is really strong”

Regarding his own potential and chances of one day playing for England’s first team he explained:

“I can only continue playing football and hope to progress further. I would love to play for England but with all the young talent England has there’s only a small amount of them special enough to play. Obviously I’ll try to be a part of that.”