Dude Perfect Youth International is the highlight of the year

Team coach Ronan McCarthy says that the Dude Perfect Youth International cup is the highlight of the year for the academy kids.

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00:00Yes, obviously the Dude Perfect International Tournament is probably the highlight of the year for all the Academy kids.

00:05There's a few lucky ones who get to be involved every year, and sometimes a few of them get to do it a couple of times, which is amazing.

00:11But even from a coach's point of view, this is one we've looked at this date and look forward to for a few weeks now.

00:17So the preparations have been really good lately.

00:20And once the groups came out, we got to see all the teams, we're really excited and all the kids are buzzing for it.

00:25So we're really looking forward to this weekend.

00:27The tournaments you usually play, this is rare, if we go to another country, we play against local teams,

00:32we might play against the teams from that country.

00:34But when it's a real proper international tournament, we're going to play against a German team today.

00:38We're going to play against Chelsea, one of the best teams in this country.

00:41We're going to play against a team from a different continent in America.

00:44So how often do we get this? It's an amazing experience for the kids.

00:47Last year, unfortunately, we didn't top the group, but we did get into the second phase, into the plate.

00:53And we had an amazing time. We won the tournament actually, that phase of it.

00:57Got to play against some really good teams, played against one of the La Liga teams in the final.

01:00We still have great memories from that.

01:02So it's great that even if it doesn't go anywhere early on, you do have something else to play for.

01:06But obviously we want to do our best in the tournament.

01:09These are the first team training pitches. These are the guys that they get to watch at the weekend.

01:13We're so lucky to have this. Everything's immaculate and credit to the ground staff as well.

01:18The pitches look really good today. So football conditions wise, we couldn't ask for any more.

01:23No, you shouldn't have been working any more.

01:24Great.

01:25Awesome.

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