Gold Coast fab four in Joeys camp

GOLD COAST United’s Christian Vulinovich, Eli Hughes, Josh Dimarco and Sean Smith have been earmarked for higher honours after taking part in a Joey’s Member Federation Identification Camp.

The two-day camp brought together 27 of the state’s top under-17 players at Football Queensland’s (FQ) Meakin Park headquarters on April 6 and 7, as the first step towards selection for the Joeys’ AFC Under-17 Championship campaign in September.

As well as an intra-squad match, the camp also included three training sessions and workshops on injury prevention, training reviews and match preparation.

“(It is) a great opportunity for Queensland-based players and coaches,” Joeys head coach Trevor Morgan said.

FQ head of high performance and coach education Pat Hedges said the chosen players were now one step closer to Joeys selection.

“The players are selected from among NPL clubs, so they play at the highest level in the state and have gone through selection processes to get here. They are among the first players to be assessed when it comes to the training camp selection process as they are already in the NTC system,” Hedges said.