Hilton College’s 16-year-old first team soccer goalkeeper Costi Christodoulou is on trial with English Premiership football giants Manchester City.

Costi jetted off to the UK over the weekend and for the grade 10 boy it’s a wonderful opportunity to reach for his dream.

Sunday saw Costi watch the Manchester derby between City and United and he began his trial with Man City yesterday.

City are hosting Costi over the next fortnight in order to have a close look at this young shot-stopper.

English champions City have been following Costi’s progress since he first started for SA U17 as a15-year-old prodigy.

The 16-year-old Costi is the current SA U17 captain.

Costi has been attending Maritzburg United training sessions since grade 9 and is the youngest player to have played in the Diski Challenge.

Hilton College has done its utmost to support Costi and has granted him leave of absence to attend training in the mornings at Maritzburg United’s Harry Gwala Stadium  and made allowances for this highly intelligent lad to recoup time lost in the classroom later.

Being a boarder certainly helps this process and Costi has been hitting the 90 percentile academic average in his subjects.

Prior to this one, KZN10.com had written three stores on Constandino “Costi” Christodoulou – and Jono has written another on Costi for a national magazine.

* You can find the earlier  KZN10.com Costi stories on the soccer page or the Hilton College page.

KZN10.com knows how to pick ‘em.

To be honest it’s not that difficult – and certainly pretty obvious to many – just a few minutes watching Costi in action for Hilton firsts or as captain of the Amajimbos (SA U17) and you can tell he’s got the elusive “it” that sets him apart.

The KZN10 family wishes Costi everything of the best over the next two weeks.

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