Courtesy: Townsville Bulletin


National honours for Townsville futsal duo

by NATALIE PEUT

28May08

DAVID Lecornu and Corey Harvey will wear an Australian jersey for the first time when they represent their country in China later this year.

The 13-year-olds' performances stood out to selectors when they represented North Queensland in Brisbane during the Easter holidays.

Both players admitted receiving an invitation to represent Australia against Chinese teams in October was a shock.

"We didn't know the Australian selecters were there and didn't think we could go from playing for North Queensland to playing for Australia," Lecornu said.

"It should be a lot of good fun in China.

"We are going to play against schools and representative teams in Chengdu City in China."

Lecornu, who was going overseas for the second time, says it was going to be a challenge to play a Chinese team.

"It's going to be hard for both of us with the language difference, but it should be fun," he said.

Harvey was also honoured to be playing for Australia and said it was a challenge he was looking forward to.

"It will be different. I've been to China before but I'm looking forward to playing there," Harvey said.

"It's going to be pretty hard because they are going to have really fast feet."

The boys were both busily fundraising for their trip, with raffle tickets and other fundraising activities at the Friday night markets at Riverway.






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