Daniel invited back after impressing at Pompey trials

Changes are afoot at English Premier Football Club Portsmouth, and Kamo and North Force junior Daniel Ridgley is hoping to be a part of them.
Details of the famous club's proposed sale to a United Emirates investor were released on Friday, a day after Ridgley and fellow North Force junior Murray Wootten returned from a trial at the club.
Both players enjoyed the stay and for Ridgley, the aim is to be signed for the club's academy programme with the 14-year-old progressing past the first stage of selection. Ridgley spent more than two weeks at the club, while Wootten trialled at Nottingham County, as well as at Portsmouth.
"I played a couple of games at Portsmouth and played pretty well and they asked me back," a jubilant Ridgley said.
"So now I'll go back for another six weeks and hopefully they'll sign me up at the end of that."
United Soccer One's Northland development manager Adam Hayne said to be asked back was a "massive" development for Ridgley.
"He was training and playing with Muzza's [Wootten's] combined 15-16 age group side, so for a 14-year-old to do that and then be invited back is very promising," Hayne said.
"It's up to him now, if he plays well when he goes back, he'll be offered a place at the academy."
The Kamo High School student knows how difficult it is to make it in arguably the most competitive football league in the world after trialling at Aston Villa along with fellow Northlanders Courts Wood and Fraser Seymour last year.
"It is quite different from playing in New Zealand, there is a very high level of football over there," Ridgley said.
"It's much faster, the players all have really good skills ... there were kids from Australia, Israel, Croatia, Ireland, from all over," he said.
The young midfielder will discuss his options for returning with Northland area coach Dean Wheatley, who accompanied the pair and who returned from England yesterday.
'I'm not sure when I'll be going back yet but I have to get my British passport sorted out before I go," Ridgley said.
Wootten said that, despite scoring two goals for Portsmouth in their academy match against Tottenham Hotspur, he had not been signed. But neither had he had much of a chance, with both sides already largely filling their academy rosters for the season.
"But I still want to go back and keep trialling, and hopefully a chance will come up at a different club," Wootten added.