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Lletget rapidly progressing at West Ham |
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on 09 Mar 2010
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"Within 10 minutes of seeing [Lletget], Tony Carr [West Ham's director
of youth development] said that the kid is special," Leigh says. "He
thought Sebastian was fantastic; he just blew Tony away."
Sebastian Lletget figured the scout was at camp to run the team through some drills.
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Sebastian Lletget has made rapid progress in West Ham's academy system.
And this wasn't any scout. This was Mike Leigh of famed West Ham
United. As it turns out, Leigh hadn't traveled to Santa Clara Sporting
to run a few one-on-one drills and tell the charges some stories about
the English Premier League.
The
Hammers sent Leigh all the way to northern California in June 2006 to
check out Lletget -- 13 at the time -- after hearing about him from
Santa Clara Sporting coach Carlos Brasil.
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