SIMEON COURTNEY ELDON MAYE BIRMINGHAM CITY ACADEMY TRIALIST
My football career
Name: Simeon Courtney Eldon Maye
Age: 17 years old
Height: 5ft 9inchs
Position: Centre midfield (preferably) can also play centre or right back.
My career
For many years I have played Sunday league football from under 10’s up until u15’s, playing above my age group and then the U15’s season when I was 13 I was scouted by Birmingham City and Walsall F.C.
2007-08 season
It was in January when I was spotted by both and was offered a trial at both clubs. This was in the 2007-08 football season and then I got injured playing for my Sunday team and both clubs told me to come back on trial the following pre-season. Pre-season came and I got a pre-season time table and noticed that the times of both clubs clashed on certain days, confronted them both and they said you have to pick one or the other. Thoroughly thinking it through I picked Birmingham City and the trial began. I played many games for them including against Fulham F.C and Coventry City scoring in the game at Coventry and other pre-season games. After that Coventry City game I twisted my ankle in a minor incident and it felt loose causing me to miss two weeks of the trial. After I came back to training after the injury, the academy manager (Kristjaan Speakman) told me that new players have been recruited and that I was no longer needed.
2008-09 season
After weeks of feeling hurt and down, I started to train and play with my Sunday league team and the Walsall scout showed renewed interest in me and this time told me to join a development squad which I did. I ended up staying with that development squad until January of the 2008-09 season and managers Steve and the Walsall reserve keeper Rene Gilmartin at the time; they wanted me to stay and continue but I was told to go back up to Walsall F.C for a second trial which this time left me in agony as it seemed a successful trial until I got injured again for the rest of the season. They gave me some treatment papers and papers for different teams which are available to go to.
2009-10 season
The following season I signed for Stratford Town FC. As a U16 player at the time in the 2009-10 season I made 2 appearances for their first team and a number of appearances for their youth and reserve team. In that season as a 15 year old, I was also scouted for the Birmingham County FA representative squad U16’s. The manager at the time Tony Williams made me captain with the admin manager Steve Poole.
2010-11 season
The 2010-11 season I signed for Birmingham City community trust team whilst also moving from the Birmingham County’s U16 team to the U18’s team. I was in team 1 out of 4 teams during the season at the trust team and also played in a trial match at Birmingham City’s academy against their U15’s. I left this team the following season due to my ambition and willingness to progress as a footballer and I felt as if they were dragging me back as I was not able to achieve anything from there, I couldn’t get into the blues actual team from there so I left and took my ambition elsewhere.
2011-12 season
This season I signed for Tamworth F.C after a successful trial and they also showed interest in me when the Birmingham County played against them in a pre-season match and that’s where my destination was. I signed late in august and played a game for their first team against Hinckley in a pre-season friendly. It took time for me to settle down and progress at Tamworth due to the manager Dale Belford already had a settled squad before I arrived which was at the end of pre-season and they also had a few F.A youth cup games together. I finally broke my way into the squad and started to start week in week out at the start of December. My career at the Birmingham County F.A was also continuing and I was playing well. Played in the county F.A youth cup and they are currently a game away from winning the County league cup. As the season at Tamworth started to come a close, I got injured playing against my former team (Birmingham city community trust team) although I offered a apprenticeship at Tamworth F.C to later find out that they were not given the funds to run an apprenticeship for another year.
To express an interest in offering SIMEON COURTNEY ELDON MAYE BIRMINGHAM CITY ACADEMY TRIALIST
trials please contact Tonys Soccer School directly.