Linfield Under 14s are celebrating after winning the National League Cup once again.
The 2009 side defeated Ballymena Unied 2-1 in Saturday's final at Stangmore Park. Goals from Jay Longridge and Jack May sealed the trophy for Samual McFadden's squad, who retained the silverware they won last year.
McFadden hailed the performance of his young squad in Saturday's success.
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"We are all delighted with the win. The boys did brilliant," he said.
"We won the trophy last season as part of a treble. They won everything last season and this is the third year in a row the 2009s have won it.
"I only came in as manager back in January and the boys have been fantastic. They earned their win on Saturday in what was a tight game."
Linfield were helped in their success by a young player by the name of Cameron Maciejewski Healy. He is a nephew of Blues boss and former Northern Ireland striker David Healy.
"The games against Ballymena have always been close. They hit the woodwork a couple of times, and we missed a penalty," McFadden added.
"I had actually taken our regular penalty taker off when we got the penalty. You are allowed rolling subs, so I brought him back on again and the keeper saved it.
"So I thought I was going to end up with egg on my face, but we ended up winning it. It was actually Cameron who won the penalty for us."
McFadden says senior Linfield boss Healy always keeps a close eye on the underage teams at the club's burgeoning Academy.
He says the Northern Ireland goalscoring legend would know "most if not all" of the players by name and always ensures any new recruit is offered a warm welcome.
"David would come over to the Academy quite regularly. Any new players who come to the club, he comes over and makes sure they are warmly welcomed," McFadden said.
"He would know most if not all the kids by their names. He takes a keen interest in them and help the kids settle in.
"It is great for the kids and the coaches to see the first-team manager showing an interest. Kids aspire to be David Healy.
"They will probably have seen him on TV and what he did in the game, and I am sure they look up to him. And also the fact he has been Linfield manager for a number of years."
Linfield 2009s missed out on the league title to Glentoran, but have managed to capture one trophy as the season draws to a close.
"We had a couple of slip-ups along the way. We dropped silly points which cost us in the end, but the table never lies," he said.
"Glentoran won it this year and you can't argue with that. The best team always wins the league and they finished top.
"You can have ifs, buts and maybes, but that's football. We have one more league game against Maiden City at the end of the month and that will be the season over.
"It is still good to get a trophy. We could have lost on Saturday and ended up with zero.
"We don't like finishing second at Linfield, but we will come back next season and go again."
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