And he is well on his way.

The 15-year-old Dubbo product now lives in Sydney, where he trains under Sydney FC’s Youth Academy and plays for Marconi Stallions FC in the National Premier League’s under 15s NSW Youth competition.

ALSO MAKING NEWS

He recently returned from Japan, where he was part of a 16-player Sydney FC Academy squad to represent Australia at May’s One Nation Cup – a week-long, under 15s ‘festival of football’ between Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Turkey and Russia.

Jamison helped the Australians to third place behind Russia and New Zealand, and said it was an incredible experience.

“It was really good. I met a lot of new people,” he said.

“It was really interesting because … they all spoke different languages. It was very confusing. Especially the Russians, there was only one guy who spoke English. We couldn’t really understand anyone!”

The Australians’ campaign kicked off against their trans-Tasman rivals – the Wellington Phoenix’s Academy team – where despite a strong performance they went down 2-0.

They backed up the following day with a 3-0 loss to Russia, but Jamison said the Aussies had been the better side.

“We were nil-all but we were playing better than them so they injured about six of us and then they won,” he said. “I got a stud to the hip from one of them!”

Turkey was too good for the Australians in game three, where a keeper mistake – identical to that of France’s Hugo Lloris in the World Cup final – helped Turkey to a 2-1 win.

“We played it back to the keeper and he tried to take on the striker,” Jamison lamented.

They defeated Japan 2-1 to finish in third place.

“The New Zealand team … and Russia were the better teams but we got pretty unlucky in a couple of games,” Jamison said.

“We could have won the whole thing if we had beaten Russia.”

Jamison will head back overseas in early September to play in the highly-acclaimed Southern California Development League for the Temecula Valley Hawks.

There he will spend up to eight weeks competing against sides such as LA Galaxy’s academy team.

“I was really shocked,” he said of getting invited to play in the US.

“We went to America [last year] with a squad and only one other kid got asked.

“I’m looking forward just to seeing the different players, how there are different styles of playing and see what different players around the world can bring.

“Eventually I want to play in Europe somewhere, hopefully England. That’s the main goal.”