CELTIC under-18 stormed to victory on Wednesday night, beating The Rangers’ youth side 6-5, after extra time, in the Scottish Youth Cup Final.
17–year–old midfielder, Kyle Ure captained Celtic to victory in the Scottish Youth Cup with a man-of-the-match display.
The teenager demonstrated calmness and composure in the middle of the pitch in an otherwise bonkers 120 minutes as the Parkhead youngsters ran out 6–5 winners after extra time.
Richard Foster on commentary, was impressed with the midfielder, complimenting him many times before he joked that Ure must’ve been related to Callum McGregor, going by the way he conducted himself throughout the match.
Celtic skipper, McGregor, himself was a youth cup winner in his early days, going on to capture 17 major honours in a glittering career.
Ure looks to emulate this success, aiming to take bits from the club captain’s game and add it to his own.
The Celtic under-18 skipper said: [The Herald]
“Hopefully I’m the same and this can continue.
“He’s a great role model. He plays the same position as me. I can look at his game and try to take bits from it and add it to mine.
“The way he conducts himself on and off the pitch is remarkable and he’d a great role model for me.
“He’s someone I aspire to, the club captain and a perfect example of what it takes to become a professional football player and the captain of Celtic.
“He wished us good luck, and told us to stay calm and play our game which we tried. We tried to play our game and stick to the style. I thought attacking wise we did.
“The way our rotations work and the way we play… But defensively, the whole team needs to get better. With those wee changes it would be the perfect performance.
“The manager just said the same – good luck, stay composed, nothing changes.
“At the end of the day it’s a game of football. If we play our own game we know that we can beat anybody on our day but our performance needs to come and I thought tonight in an attacking sense we showed that.”
Remember callum went out on loan but celtic were never going to let him go he was special look at the players around uk that have come from the youth level at parkhead and in the next 5 or more years you will see it in Europe brexit has allowed teams to offer these kids big wages to sign for them
Remember ask any celtic player how it is to come out of that tunnel in the champions league night with lights the wall of sound been a professional for your boyhood heroes money want give you that feel that will stay with you for your whole life