Kaden Servin, Ritchie Mahon, Noah Skotnica and Jobe Davies named for Melbourne Victory’s pre-academy team

Four of Geelong’s young guns have been named in a squad that will travel to Indonesia for an international tournament in November.

A handful of Geelong boys have made the Melbourne Victory Soccer squad for a tournament in November. For junior sport pictured from left : Noah Skotnica , Jobe Davies , Ritchie Mahon and Kaden Servin ( all age 12 ) Picture: Mark Wilson

A QUARTET of Geelong’s brightest young soccer stars will take their talent to an international tournament after earning selection in a Melbourne Victory pre-academy side.

Kaden Servin, Ritchie Mahon, Noah Skotnica and Jobe Davies will travel with the Victory to Jakarta for the Asiana Cup from November 24-27.

Kaden said the 12-year-old players were excited at the prospect of international games against other academies.

“I was so happy and excited, I was jumping up and down (when I found out),” he said.

“It was really good that my friends were coming with me, so I’m not there by myself, they were from my home club and now we’ve all sort of spread out now.”

The four Geelong boys made the 18-player strong squad that will travel together next week, with the group to play against teams from Japan, Singapore, Korea, Italy and Indonesia.

Kaden said he hoped a successful first international tour would be the start of a prosperous professional career in soccer.

“It’ll be hard but I reckon we have a really good team so I reckon we can get some wins,” he said.

“We had to try out for a pre-academy, and from there they picked the boys and they brought them into a private session, and from there they picked the team.

“I’d love to make the team (Melbourne Victory Academy), and I’m definitely pushing towards that, soccer is my main sport that I want to focus on.

“I want to make Melbourne Victory, and hopefully when I’m older, my favourite team is FC Barcelona so if I could get in there then I’d be pretty happy.”

Originally published as Kaden Servin, Ritchie Mahon, Noah Skotnica and Jobe Davies named for Melbourne Victory’s pre-academy team