Just over a decade ago Willie Wallace was organising a trial for a young Australian of Serbian heritage who he reckoned could make the grade at Celtic…
Willie as always was on the look-out for players and used his Lisbon Lions network to organise the trial initially was going to put the young lad up with fiends in Clydebank. However he ask me if I could help, knowing that we have three boys and reckoning that would be a better fit anyway for the young Australian hopeful.
When he arrived at training it’s fair to say that he wasn’t given the warmest of welcomes, mostly because of the left-field nature of the arrangement. But John Clark as you would expect got his way and shortly Bertie Auld would get involved too.
There’s a Croatian coach at the Celtic Academy and that helped the trialist whose name was Nick. He played against Manchester City and a match against Republic of Ireland and played well in both games but lost possession inside his own half resulting in a goal, I can’t recall in which match.
That was that as far as Celtic was concerned but he did get the chance to come Celtic Park to the Champions League qualifier against Karagandy as Celtic battled back from a first leg 2-0 deficit to win 3-0 on the night and 3-2 on aggregate.
Having felt a little hard done by his Celtic experience, Wispy contacted Bertie Auld who then spoke to Jim Duffy and Chic Charnley who were at Clyde at the time. As chance would have it they were organising a game that week taking a look at various free agents who they could sign and build a team around.
The venue was K-Park in East Kilbride on a murky, wet and humid night where the midgies were out in force and the ball skidded across the surface at a fair rate of knots. Nick impressed but was a little surprised when he heard about the size of the wage packets on offer at clubs like Clyde. He headed down south for a trial with Arsenal then back to Australia, where he has subsequently gone on to build up a highly successful online retail business.
That first picture is Yang not Shin .
I see you’ve changed the picture but without mentioning the mistake, making my post look stupid , I’m more than capable of making myself look stupid without your help thanks . 😉
Yeah saw post late last night and updated on phone before getting some much needed shut eye. Been another long day on the site, still going, thanks for the heads up.
Nope two diferent players diferent countries same position two suffered by Rodgers and Lawell egos
Yamada needs time to settle , if given a run of games he has the talent and speed to be a big hit, and i for one think Yang is another player who could be a big player for Celtic both just need a run of games to prove there worth.