It's an opportunity that very few footballers get to experience, but for Arsenal and Chelsea fans Brayden Smith and Kane Settree, the Western NSW Football tour of the UK will be especially unique.
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The young guns will get the chance to train at those club's grounds and with the roster of talented coaching staff both of their favoured clubs boast during the stay in England.
"We're doing training sessions at Chelsea and Arsenal, who are the teams that we follow, so that'll definitely be good," Settree said.
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"We're both pretty excited, it's the biggest thing either of us have done for soccer yet, so far."
Both boys have featured in the Western NSW team, as well as the Dubbo representative team, and have played together for five years.
"Five years or so, roughly, it's a decent clip of time," Settree said.
Neither of the young men have travelled the kind of distance that's required to make it to the United Kingdom, or experienced the icy conditions that will likely await them during the UK's winter months.
While the weather is certain to be challenging, Settree and Smith both expect a rigorous test from the playing and coaching standards in England.
"I'm expecting them to be professional, they'll have some very good coaches and some great players for us to play against," Settree said.
"I think the biggest thing is going to be getting that experience, playing against that quality of player and getting to talk to the coaches that they have available over there and see what they've got to offer, that'll be huge."
The Western NSW side's tour of the UK sets out on Friday, January 24 and will tour sporting grounds and clubs in England for two weeks before heading home.